Landry v. Parish of East Baton Rouge

SARTAIN, Judge.

In this litigation the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment rejecting their demands to have their respective properties stricken from an ordinance assessing each the sum of $39.31 per front foot as their prorata share of the costs incidental to street improvements.

The trial judge, in his written reasons for judgment, concluded that plaintiffs’ petition was untimely filed and sustained defendants’ 1 peremptory exception of prescription. The judge a quo, arguendo, went on to determine on the merits that defendants had not acted arbitrarily and capriciously in the enactment of the…