369 So. 2d 240 - Meadoux v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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1. “In our opinion, the plaintiffs' rights ... to be substituted for the deceased original tort-plaintiff were not extinguished by prescription and/or peremption, because within the requisite year pleadings were filed which (although imperfectly styled and imperfect in statement) fairly apprised the defendants of the right of the two named minors to be substituted for the decedent. As these cases hold, in such circumstances, even though the timely-filed initial proceedings are subject to dismissal due to imperfection in pleading, the court should properly permit an amendment thereof to supply the deficiencies ..., which amendment relates back to the date that the original pleadings were filed, for purposes of deciding whether a cause of action ... was filed within the peremptive year. (Citations omitted; emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 635 So. 2d 721 - Southside Civic Ass'n v. Warrington

2. “The admission of this evidence was improper, but not prejudicial to the point of being reversible. Admission of hearsay evidence is not reversible error where, as here, the record contains ample other evidence on which the trier of fact could base its findings. Meadoux v. Hall, 369 So.2d 240, 245 (La.App. 4 Cir.1979), writ denied 369 So.2d 1366 (La.1979).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 688 So. 2d 1201 - Williamson v. Haynes Best Western