Case Name: WOOD MATERIALS, LLC and Wood Resources, LLC v. CITY OF HARAHAN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-03-25
Citations: 266 So. 3d 894
Docket Number: NO. 2019-C-0018
Parties: WOOD MATERIALS, LLC and Wood Resources, LLC
v.
CITY OF HARAHAN
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 266
Pages: 894–894

Head Matter:
WOOD MATERIALS, LLC and Wood Resources, LLC
v.
CITY OF HARAHAN
NO. 2019-C-0018
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 25, 2019
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI, TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIFTH CIRCUIT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Granted. The City of Harahan is not an instrumentality of the Parish of Jefferson for purposes of the three-year prescriptive period in La. R.S. 9:5625(C). See generally Slowinski v. England Economic and Industrial Develop. Dist. , 02-0189 (La. 10/15/02), 828 So.2d 520 ; Polk v. Edwards , 626 So.2d 1128 (La. 1993). Rather, the City of Harahan is properly classified as a municipality, which is governed by the five-year prescriptive period set forth in La. R.S. 9:5625(A)(3). Applying this statute, the reconventional demand filed by the City of Harahan is timely.
Accordingly, the judgment of the court of appeal, which affirmed the district court's judgment granting the exception of prescription, is reversed. The exception of prescription is denied, and the case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings.
GUIDRY, J., recused
HUGHES, J., would deny the writ.
GENOVESE, J., would deny.
Guidry, J. recused.