29 So. 3d 635 - Burkart v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Doe v. Southeast Louisiana State Hospital · 923 So. 2d 131 - Kirby v. Field · Aucoin v. Lakewood Medical Center · 994 So. 2d 120 - In Re Succession of James · 563 So. 2d 371 - Lasseigne v. Schouest & Sons, Builders
Most-quoted passages
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“A. ... no action, whether ex contractu, ex delicto, or otherwise, including ... to recover on a contract, or to recover damages, or otherwise arising out of an engagement of planning, construction, design, or building immovable or movable property ... shall be brought against ... any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, inspection, or observation of construction or the construction of immovables, or improvement to immovable property ...: (1)(a) More than five years after the date of registry in the mortgage office of acceptance of the work by owner. * * * B. (1) The causes which are perempted within the time described above include any action: * * * (b) For damage to property, movable or immovable, arising out of any such deficiency. * * * (3) ... this peremptive period shall extend to every demand, whether brought by direct action or for contribution or indemnity or by third-party practice, and whether brought by the owner or by any other person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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