IN RE DAUZAT

Nos. 97-CA-1318, 97-CA-1319.

710 So.2d 1088 (1997)

In re Claim for Medical Negligence on Behalf of Candace Jenny DAUZAT. Jeanette Dodge DAUZAT, et al. v. LOUISIANA PATIENT'S COMPENSATION FUND, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1998.

Writ Denied May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory F. Gambel, Byron J. Casey, III, New Orleans, for Plaintiffs/Appellants.

Corinne Ann Morrison, Charles P. Blanchard, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee.

Larry M. Roedel, David A. Woolridge, Jr., Roedel, Parsons, Hill & Koch, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before ARMSTRONG, PLOTKIN and WALTZER, JJ.


PLOTKIN, Judge.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether prescription bars a petition for nullity filed by the plaintiff, Jeanette Dodge Dauzat, as natural tutrix of the minor child Candace Jenny Dauzat, some seven years after the judgment was signed. Agreeing with the trial court's finding that the petition was prescribed, we affirm the trial court judgment granting the exception of prescription filed by the defendants, Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund and the...

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