Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 7, 2014No. 2013-CC-1545PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GUIDRY, Justice.
liWe granted the writ application to answer the question of whether the one-year time period for instituting a survival action pursuant to La. Civ.Code art. 2315.1, particularly as amended by Acts 1986, No. 211, § 2, is prescriptive, within the meaning of La. Civ.Code art. 3447, or is per-emptive, within the meaning of La. Civ. Code art. 3458. The trial court granted the defendants’ peremptory exceptions of peremption and no cause of action. The trial court found the plaintiffs survival action was extinguished because it was perempted, having been filed more than one year from…
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