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ID: 9389141
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Date Created: 2023-04-24 18:05:00.665496+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:25.323897
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

               COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

ABIGAIL MILLER                                                                        NO.       2023 CW       0141

VERSUS

SHANNON HAYES (          PATTERSON)                                                         APRIL 24,        2023
SHAWN     HAYES

In Re:           City       of     Baton       Rouge/ Parish                   of    East        Baton       Rouge,
                 applying        for    supervisory writs,                      19th Judicial               District
                 Court,      Parish of East Baton Rouge,                            No.     715,925.

BEFORE:          WELCH,      PENZATO,         AND    LANIER,         J,J.

        WRIT     GRANTED         WITH    ORDER.           After+              de    nova    review,         we     find
that      plaintiff,         Abigail       Miller,            indiv~dually                and     on    behalf       of
her two minor           children,         Ryder       Price and Adrian Miller,                          failed to
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state     a    cause    of    action      against             the    City of         Baton       Rouge,       Parish
of East        Baton Rouge (           City Parish).            The ' petition fails                   to    contain
factual         allegations             that        the       City ' Parish                had     a     duty        to
plaintiff,        custody         or    control       over          the       alleged       defective         sewer,
or   that       the    City      Parish        knew       or       sho~ld          have     known       about       the
alleged        defective         sewer    system          at       plaintiff's             property,         and     as
such,     Miller       has       failed       to    state       a     c?use         of    action        under       La.
Civ.      Code    art.       2315,      La.     Civ.          Code    art.          2317.1       and     La.       R.S.
9:2800.         Accordingly,            the        December          s;   I
                                                                               2022       judgment           of     the
district        court       denying      the       peremptory , exception                    of    no    cause       of
action        filed    by    the    City       Parish         is    reversed,             and    the    exception
of   no       cause    of    action       is       sustained. ',              However,       this       matter       is
remanded         to    the       district           court          with        instructions             to        allow
plaintiff the           opportunity to amend her petition to                                     state a          cause
of   action,      if    possible,         within          a    delay          deemed      reasonable         by     the
district court.              La.    Code Civ.         P.      art.    934.

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                                                      WIL

COURT     OF APPEAL,         FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY     CLERK OF COURT
               FOR THE      COURT