ESTATE OF PATOUT v. CITY OF NEW IBERIA

No. 98-C-0961.

738 So.2d 544 (1999)

ESTATE OF Gaston PATOUT and Roy Patout v. The CITY OF NEW IBERIA, Louisiana. Squirrel Run Investment Group, Inc. v. The City of New Iberia.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 7, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Foret, Briney & Foret, Lafayette; Allyson Claire M. Edwards, James Michael Garner, McGlinchey Stafford; Keith Alex Kornman, Martha Young Curtis, Scott R. Hoyt, Thomas D. Boyle, Ralph Shelton Hubbard, III, Loree Peacock LeBoeuf, Lugenbuhl, Burke, New Orleans; Counsel for Applicant.

Porteous Richard Burke, Burke, Cestia, New Iberia; Paulin J. Laborde, Jr., Counsel for Respondent.


CALOGERO, Chief Justice.*

We granted writs in this case to determine whether lawsuits filed by the plaintiffs, the Estate of Gaston Patout and various Patout family members ("Patouts"), and the Squirrel Run Investment Group, Inc. ("Squirrel Run"), for damages arising from the unauthorized dumping of trash on their land by the City of New Iberia, are governed by the two year prescriptive period of La. R.S. 9:5624, the three year prescriptive...

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