Convent v. Lama’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Actions of this kind are barred by the prescription of one year, which is provided by article 3536 of the Civil Code, because it has been held, in Schoppel et al. v. Daly et al., 112 La. 201 , 36 So. 322, 325 , that such a suit is an action ex delicto and not ex contractu. There the court said: ‘The action of the plaintiffs is not based exclusively upon article 2695 of the Civil Code, nor upon the existence of the contract of lease referred to, though it and the article of the Code are both incidentally referred to. The action is one ex delicto for personal injuries to the wife. The existence of contractual relations between two parties is no bar to a right to damages for a tort committed pending the contract, though the contract may more or less affect their rights.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Geraci v. Di Martino