Jones v. Sun Oil Company

Full title: ANDREW D. JONES v. SUN OIL COMPANY AND C. H. MURPHY, JR

Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Oct 7, 1958

105 So. 2d 219 (La. 1958)

235 La. 554

Opinion

No. 43554.

June 27, 1958. Dissenting Opinion July 7, 1958. Rehearing Denied October 7, 1958.

Sholars, Gunby Guthrie, Oliver Fudickar, Monroe, for defendants-appellants.

Anders Anders, Winnsboro, for plaintiff-appellee.

Finsley Gilmer, New Orleans, amicus curiae.

McCALEB, Justice.

This case is governed by our decision in Reagan v. Murphy, 235 La. 529, 105 So.2d 210.

For the reasons there given, the judgment appealed from is reversed and the suit is dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

SIMON, J., absent.

[4] TATE, Justice ad hoc (dissenting).

For the reasons more fully set forth in the companion case of Reagan v. Murphy, 235 La. 529, 105 So.2d 210, I respectfully dissent.