Carter-Allen Jewelry Co. v. Over-Street

The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment which sustained a plea of prescription of one year.

More than a year intervened between the filing of this suit and the date on which the plaintiff’s right of action, if it had any, accrued.

The application of the prescription therefore must rest on the question as to whether the cause of action alleged arises ex contractu or ex delicto.

The plaintiff, as the name indicates, conducted a jewelry business in the city of Shreveport.

The defendant was employed as salesman, and a part of his duties was to look after the display of the jewelry in the windows.

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