Foster v. Hampton

BAILES, Judge.

This is a personal injury suit in which an exception of prescription was sustained in favor of the State of Louisiana. The plaintiff has appealed that judgment.

On March 26, 1975, Joseph M. Hampton, while on duty as a deputy sheriff, was involved in an intersectional collision in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Edwin E. Foster, Jr., who was on a motorcycle at the time. The plaintiff sustained serious personal injuries as a result of the accident.

This protracted litigation followed. J. A1 Amiss, the sheriff of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, was originally made a defendant herein…