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ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. MARKS

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 21, 1957
92 So. 2d 384 (La. 1957)

Opinion

No. 42718.

December 10, 1956. Rehearing Denied January 21, 1957.

APPEAL FROM NINETEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, DIVISION "A", STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE CHARLES A. HOLCOMBE, JUDGE.

Vanue B. Lacour, Baton Rouge, Louis Berry, New Orleans, for appellants.

Young Watson, St. Joseph, Sholars, Gunby Guthrie, Monroe, for defendants-appellees.


This appeal involves the same parties and the same issues of law assigned in the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jordan, 231 La. 594, 92 So.2d 377, and our findings therein are equally applicable and controlling here.

Accordingly, for the reasons assigned, the judgment of the trial court is amended to substitute Mrs. Hilda M. Hair and Mrs. Linda H. Sievers for the deceased R. W. Hair, and to substitute J. F. Vaughan, Testamentary Executor of E. R. Whitaker, for E. R. Whitaker.

In all other respects the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

McCALEB, J., concurs for the reasons given in 231 La. 594, 92 So.2d 377.

HAWTHORNE, J., absent.


Summaries of

ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. MARKS

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 21, 1957
92 So. 2d 384 (La. 1957)
Case details for

ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. MARKS

Case Details

Full title:ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. HENRY M. MARKS ET AL

Court:Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Jan 21, 1957

Citations

92 So. 2d 384 (La. 1957)
231 La. 615

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