LAKE CHARLES, La. (Legal Newsline) – A Louisiana man who took a stray cat to a state-run vet’s office may have had to deal with the death of the animal but his dispute with the bill will have state officials thinking twice about filing collections lawsuits.
The Louisiana State University Veterinarian Teaching Hospital is sanctioned $20,000 in attorneys fees for suing Robert Johnson, the state’s Third Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this month. Its ruling affirms Judge Kerry Lyndon Spruill, of the Avoyelles Parish court.
It took nearly eight years for LSU to sue Johnson for what it claimed was an unpaid amount on the treatment of stray cat Hemi in 2011.