STENSON v. CITY OF OBERLIN

No. 2010-C-0826.

60 So.3d 1205 (2011)

Kevin and Corliss STENSON, et al. v. CITY OF OBERLIN and Meyer, Meyer, Lacroix & Hixson, Inc.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 15, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, Heather Michelle Mathews , Edward E. Rundell , Alexandria, LA, for Applicant.

Deshotels, Mouser & Deshotels, Errol David Deshotels , Oberlin, LA, Garrrison, Yount, Forte & Mulcahy, LLC, Randall Craig Mulcahy , New Orleans, FL, Tollefson Bradley Ball & Mitchell, LLP, John Charles Tollefson , Dallas, TX, Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South, Rudie Ray Soileau, Jr. , Lake Charles, LA, for Respondent.


GUIDRY, Justice.

In this matter, the intervening plaintiffs, Silton and Robin Fuselier, seek to relate the date of the filing of their petition back to the date of the timely filing of the original petition against the defendant, Meyer, Meyer, LaCroix & Hixson, Inc. We granted the defendant's writ application to resolve a split in the circuits as to whether La.Code Civ. Proc. art. 1153, the so-called relation back doctrine, controls the Fuseliers intervening action...

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