Legal Opinion
Williams v. Galliano
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 20, 1997No. 96 CW 0690 RPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
| ¡WHIPPLE, Judge.
In this writ application, defendant, the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Environmental Quality (“the DEQ”), challenges the trial court’s denial of its exception pleading the objections of no cause of action and prescription. For the following reasons, we deny the writ application.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On October 1, 1990, plaintiff, Debra Williams, individually and as legal tutrix of her minor children, filed a “Petition for Wrongful Death and Survival Rights,” seeking damages for the death of her husband, Charles Williams, Jr., who was killed on July 30,…
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