M.R. Pittman Group, L.L.C. v. Plaquemines Parish Government

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

|, Rejecting the argument of the third party plaintiff, Plaquemines Parish Government, that its tort claim was not prescribed because of the application of the softening doctrine of contra non valentem, the trial judge sustained the exception of prescription filed by the third party defendant, The Gray Insurance Company. Plaquemines Parish appeals.

We have reviewed the trial judge’s factual findings under the well-known manifest error or clearly wrong standard. We find that the trial judge was not clearly wrong in his reasonable factual findings both that Plaquemines…