Adams v. Aetna Casualty Insurance

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of an accident which occurred on May 9, 1964. On October 22, 1965, more than one year after the accident, the plaintiff filed this suit, being No. 32545 on the docket of the Sixteenth Judicial District Court in and for the Parish of St. Mary. Defendants, American Motorist Insurance Company, Aetna Casualty Insurance Company and Petroleum Distributing Company filed peremptory exceptions of prescription on the ground that the cause of action arose more than one year prior to the commencement of the suit, and was therefore prescribed by…