CITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. T.L. JAMES & CO.

No. 95-CA-2193.

672 So.2d 1116 (1996)

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. T.L. JAMES & COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avis Marie Russell, City Attorney, Milton Osborne, Jr., Deputy City Attorney, Scott P. Shea, Assistant City Attorney, New Orleans, for Plaintiff/Appellant.

Charles W. Schmidt, III, Philip J. Borne, Christovich & Kearney, L.L.P., New Orleans, for Defendant/Appellee.

Before BARRY, BYRNES and PLOTKIN, JJ.


PLOTKIN, Judge.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the two-year prescriptive period provided by LSA-R.S. 9:5624, relative to damages to private property by activities undertaken for public purposes may be applied to property owned by the City of New Orleans [hereinafter "City"], which property the City intends to renovate for public purposes, if that property had never been used for public purposes prior to...

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