Hogg v. Chevron USA, Inc.

WEIMER, Justice.1

|, We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether the plaintiffs’ claims for damages to their immovable property resulting from the migration of gasoline from formerly leaking underground storage tanks located on neighboring property are prescribed. Finding that plaintiffs acquired constructive knowledge of the damage to their property more than one year prior to the institution of suit and that the doctrine of continuing tort does not apply to delay the commencement of prescription on plaintiffs’ claims, we reverse the judgment of the district court denying the…