ESTATE OF PATOUT v. CITY OF NEW IBERIA

Nos. 97-1097, 97-1098 and W97-1070.

708 So.2d 526 (1998)

The ESTATE OF Gaston PATOUT and Roy Patout, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF NEW IBERIA, Louisiana, Defendant-Appellee. SQUIRREL RUN INVESTMENT GROUP, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF NEW IBERIA, Defendant-Appellee. The ESTATE OF Gaston PATOUT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW IBERIA, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porteus Richard Burke, New Iberia, P. J. LaBorde, Jr., Lake Charles for The Estate of Gaston Patout, et al.

Charles J. Foret, Lafayette, Allison M. Edwards, for City of New Iberia in No. W97-1070.

H. Lee Leonard, Lafayette, Julie Anne Scheib, New Orleans, Dwight Stephens, Michael J. Schwab, New York City, for Twin City Fire Insurance in No. W97-1070.

Craig Lewis Caesar, James Michael Garner, New Orleans, Scott R. Hoyt, Dallas, TX, Peter C. D'Apice, for Century Indemnity Company and Pacific Employers Ins. in No. W97-1070.

Gary Mark Zwain, Andrew David Weinstock, Metairie, for Continental Insurance Company in No. W97-1070.

Ralph Shelton Hubbard, III, Loree Peacock LeBouef, New Orleans, for Travelers Ins. Co. in No. W97-1070.

Charles J. Foret, Lafayette, for City of New Iberia in Nos. 97-97-1097 and 97-1098.

J. Clayton Davie, Jr., for Travelers Insurance Co., et al. in Nos. 97-1097 and 97-1098.

Craig Lewis Caesar, New Orleans, Scott R. Hoyt, Dallas, TX, for Century Indemnity Co. and Pacific Employers Ins. in Nos. 97-1097 and 97-1098.

Gary Mark Zwain, Metairie, for Continental Insurance Co. in Nos. 97-1097 and 97-1098.

H. Lee Leonard, Lafayette, Julie Anne Scheib, New Orleans, Louis G. Adolfsen, New York City, for Twin City Fire Insurance in No. 97-1097 and 97-1098.

Samuel Milton Rosamond, III, Metairie, for Commercial Union Insurance Co.

Porteus Richard Burke, New Iberia, P. J. LaBorde, Jr., for Squirrell Run Inv. Group, Inc.

Before SAUNDERS, SULLIVAN and GREMILLION, JJ.


SAUNDERS, Judge.

Plaintiffs filed suit against the City of New Iberia (City) and its insurers for damages due to trespassing resulting from the operation of a municipal landfill adjacent to their property. The defendants filed numerous defenses and exceptions, one of which was a peremptory exception of prescription. The district court, in its final judgment on the issue of prescription, granted the peremptory exception of prescription as to certain claims of trespass...

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