Carter v. Moore

The Court of Appeal in this case based its decision upon California Company v. Price, 225 La. 706, 74 So.2d 1 (1954), and State v. Cenac, 132 So.2d 897 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1961), writs refused 241 La. 1055, 132 So.2d 928 (1961). See 234 So.2d 823 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1970). A strong dissent in the Court of Appeal relied upon an act of the Legislature in 1954, which had never been passed upon, as authority for overruling California Company v. Price. We granted writs with a view of reconsidering the Price and Cenac decisions and considering the act of the Legislature as they might affect patents…