Brigham v. Bussey
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, parish of More-house. Bay, J.
1Opinion of the CourtSowell, J.
This is an action against A. L. Bussey, as recorder of the parish of Morehouse, and the sureties on his official bond, for the damages resulting from a failure of official duty by the deputy recorder in not reinscribing a certain judgment within the proper time, as he, the deputy, was specially instructed to do, by which the debt due plaintiff was lost.
To this action, under a general denial, the prescription of one year is opposed.
*677It is a rule of our jurisprudence and law that if a shorter prescript, tion is not specially applied to personal actions, they are prescribed by> two years. • We…
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