Opinion ID: 1831502
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: claims for damages

Text: Regarding the court of appeal's determination that plaintiffs' damage claims arising out of the three flooding incidents had prescribed in two years from the date of the first flood under R.S. 9:5624, and that the trial court was incorrect in finding otherwise, we find that plaintiff Gaharan's writ in this regard was improvidently granted and should be recalled without disposition on its merit. This is for the reason that having affirmed the court of appeal regarding the injunction, there is no need, indeed no request by relator, to address the issue or issues. In Garahan's application for writs, he specifically asserted that he was not aggrieved by the result of the judgment of the court of appeal, but that only should the State of Louisiana seek and obtain supervisory review, and only if this Court should determine that the judgment of the court of appeal allowing him to continue to seek injunctive relief should be reversed or modified for any reason, would he have us review and reverse that part of the judgment of the court of appeal which sustained the prescription exception under R.S. 9:5624. Moreover, counsel for Gaharan specifically reconfirmed this position in oral argument when he said that he was satisfied with the opinion of the court of appeal and that he would just as soon leave this case in the posture in which the court of appeal wrote it. Having responded favorably to his outset position that we should affirm the court of appeal regarding the viability of the injunction action, it becomes unnecessary that we address and resolve the issues raised in Garahan's application for writs. Accordingly, we will dismiss the writ in No. 90-CC-1887 as unnecessarily, if not improvidently, granted.