Dean v. Hercules Incorporated

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• interpreting C.C. art. 667 to encompass personal injuries as well as property damage arising from a neighboring landowner's use of his land
• in a suit involving damage to property caused by chemical emissions, prescription begins to run “from the date the damage becomes apparent”
• “[T]he plaintiff must exercise reasonable diligence in ascertaining the identity of the party injuring him.”
• where owner of tract of land brought claim for damages based on La. C. C. art. 667 against neighboring chemical plant for chemical emissions that killed or adversely affected trees on his land, the one- year prescriptive period for delictual actions was applicable to the E claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).