Brown v. Democratic Parish Committee

I find myself unable to subscribe to the majority ruling maintaining defendants’ plea of prescription. For my part, I think the plea is untenable.

It is stated in the majority opinion that the relators and their attorneys had absented themselves prior to the time the defendant committee reached and announced its conclusions to those who were present in the courthouse. It is true relators and their attorneys were not present when the committee left its consultation room after reaching its conclusions. But their absence was _ not due to any willfulness or carelessness on their part. It was due…