WILLIAMSON v. BERGER

No. 2005-83.

908 So.2d 35 (2005)

Sonya J. WILLIAMSON v. Jayson M. BERGER, Ph.D., M.D., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Jane Marshall, Janice M. Culotta, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees, Jayson M. Berger, Ph.D., M.D., Lt. Gene Woods, and Nancy Victoria Vancouvering, Ph.D.

Peter C. Piccione, Jr., Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant, Sonya J. Williamson.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, SYLVIA R. COOKS, and J. DAVID PAINTER, Judges.


PAINTER, J.

The trial court dismissed Plaintiff's suit on the ground of abandonment, finding that interrogatories filed in the record were insufficient to interrupt the three-year period provided by La.Code Civ.P. art. 561 as they were not signed by the Plaintiff or an attorney representing the Plaintiff. Plaintiff appealed. For the following reasons, we affirm the dismissal on the ground of abandonment.

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