Court Dates Discovery of Defects to Architect's Report on EIFS

LAKE CHARLES, La. - A Louisiana appellate court has reinstated a couple's lawsuit to rescind their purchase of a $550,000 home, saying that despite prior inspections outside the one-year statute of limitations, the couple could not have discovered that siding defects were the cause of water intrusion and mold until receiving a recent architect's report. Gad v. Granberry, et al., No. 07-117 (La. Ct. App., 3rd Cir.).

Louisiana's 3rd Circuit court of Appeal on June 25 reversed a lower court's dismissal of their exhibition suit on grounds of prescription, crediting assertions by Dr. and Mrs. Sarwat Gad that they did …