Case Name: Mary Joan Wilkes KELLY, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Patricia Lynn KELLY v. Terry A. TEMPLET and XYZ Insurance Company
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1982-10-12
Citations: 428 So. 2d 817
Docket Number: No. 15119
Parties: Mary Joan Wilkes KELLY, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Patricia Lynn KELLY v. Terry A. TEMPLET and XYZ Insurance Company.
Judges: Before LOTTINGER, COLE and CARTER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 428
Pages: 817–819

Head Matter:
Mary Joan Wilkes KELLY, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Patricia Lynn KELLY v. Terry A. TEMPLET and XYZ Insurance Company.
No. 15119.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
Oct. 12, 1982.
On Rehearing Feb. 22, 1983.
Writ Denied April 15,1983.
Stuart R. Thomson, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellants Mary Joan Wilkes Kelly, (individually) and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Patricia Lynn Kelly.
Richard B. Nevils, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellees Terry A. Templet and Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co.
Daniel R. Atkinson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee Allstate Ins. Co.
Before LOTTINGER, COLE and CARTER, JJ.

Opinion:
LOTTINGER, Judge.
Plaintiff, Mary Joan Wilkes Kelly, individually and on behalf of her minor child, Patricia Lynn Kelly, filed suit against Allstate Insurance Company, alleging uninsured motorists coverage in connection with an automobile-pedestrian accident occurring June 10,1978. From judgment of the trial court maintaining the peremptory exception of prescription raised by Allstate, plaintiff has appealed.
FACTS
This suit arose when Patricia Lynn Kelly, while attempting to walk across Perkins Road in East Baton Rouge Parish, was struck by a vehicle driven by Terry A. Tem-plet. The accident occurred June 10, 1978, and suit was filed against Templet and "XYZ Insurance Company," an unknown insurer, on June 11, 1979. The suit was answered by Templet and Southeastern Fidelity Insurance Company. Allstate, plaintiff's uninsured motorists carrier, was made a party defendant by supplemental and amending petition on November 4, 1980. Allstate filed the peremptory exception of prescription, arguing that plaintiffs claim for UM coverage had prescribed after June 10, 1980, according to La.R.S. 9:5629, which was enacted as Act 444 of 1977 by the legislature, and which became effective July 1, 1978. The trial court sustained the exception of prescription and dismissed plaintiffs suit at her cost.
SPECIFICATION OF ERROR
Plaintiff-appellant contends that the trial court erred in sustaining the peremptory exception of prescription, when such ruling was based on a statute that did not take effect until after plaintiff's cause of action had vested. We pretermit discussion of plaintiff's assignment of error, finding that the suit against Allstate has not prescribed. Recently, in Hoefly v. Government Employees Insurance Company, 418 So.2d 575 (La.1982); and Matthews v. Insurance Company of North America 418 So.2d 582 (La.1982) our Supreme Court stated that an uninsured tortfeasor and a UM carrier are bound in solido to the tort victim, up to the limits of UM coverage. Accordingly, the court held that a suit filed timely against the tortfeasor interrupted prescription as to the UM carrier, under La.R.S. 9:5801 and La.Civ.Code art. 2097.
In the case sub judice, the accident occurred on June 10, 1978. The suit against Templet was filed on June 11, 1979. However, June 10,1979, the last day for filing a tort action, was a Sunday. La.Code Civ.P. art. 5059 states that if the last day of a period of time prescribed by law is a legal holiday, the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a legal holiday. All Sundays are legal holidays for purposes of La.Code Civ.P. art. 5059. We therefore find that the suit against Templet filed Monday, June 11, 1979, was timely, and according to Hoefly and Matthews, supra, served to interrupt prescription as to Allstate. Thus, the exception of prescription raised by Allstate cannot be sustained.
Therefore, for the above and foregoing reasons, the judgment of the trial court sustaining the peremptory exception of prescription in favor of Allstate Insurance Company is hereby reversed, and the cause remanded to the trial court for further proceedings. Costs of this appeal are assessed to defendant-appellee Allstate Insurance Company.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
. See La.Civ.Code art. 3536.
. See La.R.S. 1:55(E).