Court Opinion

ID: 4828959
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-22 16:29:16.048035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:11:21.549650
License: Public Domain

CRICHTON, J.,
would grant with order and assigns reasons.
hi would grant this application and reinstate the trial court’s judgment sustaining the exception of prescription. Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of one year. La. C.C. art. 3492. But under the doctrine of contra non valentem, in exceptional circumstances this prescriptive period may be suspended. This includes “where the cause of action is neither known nor reasonably knowable by the plaintiff even though plaintiffs ignorance is not induced by the defendant.” Marin v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 2009-2368, p. 12 (La.10/19/10); 48 So.3d 234, 245. In my view, this plaintiffs claim that her attorney acted negligently in not investigating all possible defendants is not a justification for the use of the doctrine of contra non valentem.