NEW YORK UNDERWRITERS INS. CO. v. B. H. PREWITT & SONS

No. 7759.

55 So.2d 303 (1951)

NEW YORK UNDERWRITERS INS. CO. et al. v. B. H. PREWITT & SONS et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alwine L. Mulhearn, Tallulah, for appellants.

Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., Jack Folk, Tallulah, for appellees.


GLADNEY, Judge ad hoc.

Three insurance companies, subrogated to the claims of their insured, Earl C. Leoty of Tallulah, Louisiana, have brought this action for damages to property caused by a fire in the Leoty home on November 15, 1948. The fire occurred while the defendants were reconditioning the hardwood floor of the living room and their workmen were engaged in spreading a hydrocarbon thinner known as Varsol. The application...

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