The plaintiff filed a negligence action alleging that she contracted salmonella poisoning after eating at a local restaurant.  I represented one of the defendants in this case.  The 24th Judicial District Court sustained our Exceptions of Prescription and dismissed plaintiff's claims. On Appeal, the Fifth Circuit held that the Trial Court erred when it held that the Doctrine of Contra Non-Valentum applied to suspend the running of the one-year prescriptive period for the restaurant's patron's negligence actions.  Regrettably, the matter was reversed on appeal.