LEIGH v. JOHNSON-EVANS MOTORS

No. 8178.

75 So.2d 710 (1954)

LEIGH v. JOHNSON-EVANS MOTORS, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

On Rehearing October 29, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan, Baker & Skeels, Shreveport, for appellant.

Cecil C. Lowe, Minden, for appellee.


AYRES, Judge.

This is an action for damages for the destruction of plaintiff's automobile by fire in the garage of Johnson-Evans Motors, Inc., where it had been delivered for repairs, and for inconvenience and loss of the use of the automobile. The defendants are the motor company and its insurer.

The district court applied the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to the facts of the case and held that the defendant motor company failed to establish its freedom...

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