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Owen v. Zurich Insurance Company

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 15, 1968
205 So. 2d 410 (La. 1968)

Opinion

No. 48551.

December 11, 1967. Rehearing Denied January 15, 1968.

APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT.

Charles W. Wilson, Watson, Blanche, Wilson, Posner Thibaut, Baton Rouge, for applicant.

H. Alva Brumfield, Sylvia Roberts, Emile M. Weber, Baton Rouge, Normann Normann, Frank S. Normann, New OrLeans, Durrett, Hardin, Hunter, Dameron Fritchie, Wallace A. Hunter, Robert L. Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, for respondents.


The facts and issues in this case are identical with those is Webb v. Zurich Insurance Co., 251 La. 558, 205 So.2d 398, with which it was consolidated for trial and appeal.

For the reasons therein assigned, the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the judgment of the district court dismissing the plaintiff's suit against the Zurich Insurance Company are reversed; the exceptions of no cause and no right of action filed by the company are overruled; and it is now ordered, adjusted, and decreed that there be judgment against the Zurich Insurance Company and in favor of Mrs. Frances Tucker Owen, individually and in her representative capacity, in the amount of $208,698, apportioned $156,198 to her individually and $17,500 each to her three minor children, Sally Tucker Owen, James Kimbrough Owen, Jr., and John Ludwell Owen, with legal interest from judicial demand until paid. All costs are to be paid by the Zurich Insurance Company.

HAMITER, J., concurs in the result.

McCALEB and HAMLIN, JJ., dissent.


Summaries of

Owen v. Zurich Insurance Company

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 15, 1968
205 So. 2d 410 (La. 1968)
Case details for

Owen v. Zurich Insurance Company

Case Details

Full title:MRS. FRANCES TUCKER OWEN, ADMINISTRATRIX, v. ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL

Court:Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Jan 15, 1968

Citations

205 So. 2d 410 (La. 1968)
251 La. 590

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