BAUMANN v. SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

No. 40038.

53 So.2d 238 (1951)

219 La. 472

BAUMANN et al. v. SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irion & Switzer, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Wilkinson, Lewis & Wilkinson, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.


PONDER, Justice.

Lewis J. Baumann and eight insurance companies, who had paid him a portion of the loss he had sustained by fire, brought suit against the Southwestern Gas and Electric Company seeking to recover the value of a commercial building and its contents, alleged to have been destroyed by fire of an electrical origin resulting from low voltage negligently furnished by the defendant. The defendant denied any negligence on its part or that the fire was of electrical...

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