Ray v. Alexandria Mall ex rel. St. Paul Property & Liability Insurance

LABORDE, Judge.

Plaintiff, Frances Ray, appeals the decision of the lower court sustaining defendant’s, Alexandria Mall Company, peremptory exception of prescription. We affirm. The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the lower court was correct in sustaining the exception and thereby dismissing Ray’s suit.

Frances Ray filed suit on February 4, 1982, alleging that on February 18, 1981, she slipped and fell inside the Alexandria Mall. Ray named the Alexandria Mall, a non-existent legal entity, as the sole defendant describing it as a “corporation organized under the laws of Louisiana”. On…