Opinion
No. 5686.
November 10, 1976.
APPEAL FROM 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF RAPIDES, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE JIMMY M. STOKER, JUDGE.
William J. Doran, Jr., Baton Rouge, Gist, Methvin Trimble by DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, for defendants-appellants.
Russell E. Gahagan, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellee.
Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and WATSON, JJ.
Plaintiff, Gus Kaplan, Inc., brought this suit to recover damages it sustained, on or about December 2, 1973, when a vent cover blew off during a rainstorm, causing extensive damage to its merchandise. Made defendants were Central Plumbing Heating Company, a commercial partnership between Leroy and Jimmie B. Guinn; the partners individually; Central's liability insurer, Hartford Fire Insurance Company; Piccadilly Cafeteria, Inc.; a division of Piccadilly known as National Construction Company; Louisiana Investors of Delaware, Inc.; Aetna Casualty Surety Company, the liability insurer of both Piccadilly and Louisiana Investors; Tudor Construction Company; and Tudor's insurer, American Employers Insurance Company. All except Tudor and Tudor's insurer, American Employers Insurance Company, have appealed from the judgment of the trial court awarding plaintiff Kaplan $55,777.30.
For the reasons assigned in our docket number 5683, Fidelity Guaranty Insurance Company v. Central Plumbing Heating Company et al., La.App., 339 So.2d 904, the judgment of the trial court herein is affirmed at the cost of defendants-appellants.
AFFIRMED.