EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSUR. CORP. v. C. E. CARNES & CO.

No. 749.

24 F.Supp. 128 (1938)

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSUR. CORPORATION, LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, v. C. E. CARNES & CO., Inc., et al.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

May 27, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Rightor and W. H. Sellers, both of New Orleans, La., for complainants.

Hawthorn, Stafford & Pitts, of Alexandria, La., McCoy, King & Jones and R. A. Anderson, all of Lake Charles, La., H. P. Carmouche, of Crowley, La., R. H. Agate, Jr., of Welsh, La., and N. C. Pettijean, of Rayne, La., for respondents.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought this suit for a declaratory judgment against its assured, C. E. Carnes & Company, Inc., under a policy of public liability insurance, and against numerous other persons, who were injured or had their property damaged by an explosion of butane gas hauled by the truck covered by the policy. It alleged that a controversy had arisen as to its duty to defend claims against the assured resulting from said explosion exceeding...

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