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OLIVEDELL PLANTING CO. v. TOWN OF LAKE PROVIDENCE

Nos. 39181-39183.

47 So.2d 23 (1950)

217 La. 621

OLIVEDELL PLANTING CO., Inc., et al. v. TOWN OF LAKE PROVIDENCE. MITCHINER et al. v. TOWN OF LAKE PROVIDENCE (two cases).

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 29, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McIntosh, Sims & Hester, Oak Grove, Captan Jack Wyly, Lake Providence, for defendant, appellant.

R. V. Reeves, Oak Grove, Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe, for plaintiffs-appellees.

MOISE, Justice.

The town of Lake Providence is appealing in these three consolidated cases from judgments for damages against it totaling $40,662.00, with legal interest from December 11, 1945. The basis of the actions is one sounding in tort against the Town for the negligent operation of its electric light and power plant, the proximate cause of the loss of plaintiffs' properties by fire.

The plaintiffs, in three separate suits, alleged specific acts of...

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