Case ID: la-ann_20/html/0151-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HowEnn, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1590
    John Williams v. Fred. Greiner.
    An action in damages for a tort, in taking and appropriating the personal goods of another, is prescribed by the lapse of one year from the commission o£ the offence.
    An action for the recovery on an open account is prescribed by three years.
    APPEAL from the District Court, Parish of Lafourche, Gates, J.
    
      Bush & Goode, for plaintiff and appellee,
    if. I). Jordan, for defendant and appellant.
   HowEnn, J.

Plaintiff claims the value of four hogsheads of sugar and three hundred and twenty barrels of corn, alleged to have been taken and carried áwáy from his plantation, without his.consent, by the defendant, and appropriated to .the use of the latter, in the months of November and December, 1862. The defendant, besides a general and special defence, pleads the prescriptions of one and three years. Judgment was rendered against him, and he has appealed.

, We think the plea of prescription should have, .been maintained. The alleged taking and carrying away occurred between the 3d and the 12th or 15th of. November, 1862, and citation in this suit, was served on defendant on the 28th of November, 1865. If the action is considered as one in damages for a tort, in taking and appropriating personal property, as set out in the petition, it'is prescibéd by one year. If it be viewed as a suit upon an open account, it is prescribed by three years, which elapsed before the service of citation herein.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be reversed, and that there he judgment for defendant, with costs in both courts.