Dugas v. Bayou Teche Water Works, Inc.

AMY, Judge.

| Nile plaintiffs alleged damage to their land and farming practices due to the defendant water facility’s discharge of brine into a canal adjacent to the plaintiffs’ property. The water facility and its insurer filed an initial exception of prescription pursuant to the time limitations of La.R.S. 9:5624, which provides a two-year period of limitation for damage to private property damaged for public purposes. Initially sustained by the trial court, a panel of this court reversed the ruling due to an inadequate factual basis provided in the record on appeal. On remand, the…