Brown v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company

Full title: Joseph D. BROWN, Jr., Individually, etc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Jan 15, 1962

136 So. 2d 286 (La. Ct. App. 1962)

Opinion

No. 428.

December 11, 1961. Rehearing Denied January 15, 1962.

Appeal from Tenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; Julian E. Bailes, Judge.

Stafford Pitts, by Grove Stafford, Sr., for defendants and third party plaintiffs-appellants.

Mayer Smith, by Charles L. Mayer, Shreveport, for defendants and third party plaintiffs-appellants.

Gist, Murchison Gist, by Howard B. Gist, Jr., Alexandria, for plaintiff and third party defendant-appellee.

Bryan Lehmann, Jr., Norco, and Watson, Williams Brittain, by Arthur C. Watson, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, SAVOY and HOOD, JJ.

TATE, Judge.

This is a companion suit to Brown v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company, 136 So.2d 283, arising out of the same accident and involving the same issue on appeal. For the reasons more fully assigned in the companion suit, we affirm the judgment of the district court dismissing the third party demand filed by the defendant-appellants impleading the Hartford Accident Indemnity Company as third party defendant. Costs to be paid by the defendants-appellants.

Affirmed.

On Application for Rehearing

En Banc. Rehearing denied.