MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY v. STRECKER

No. 20649.

89 So.2d 517 (1956)

MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Charles W. STRECKER, d/b/a Orleans Cabinet Works.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1956.

Writ of Certiorari Granted December 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lemle & Kelleher, Carl J. Schumacher, Jr., and John T. Chambers, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Morphy & Freeman, for defendant-appellee.


JANVIER, Judge.

The question presented is interesting. May a contractor, who, under contract with an owner, installs a kitchen wall cabinet in a dwelling which the owner leases to a tenant, be held liable to a tenant for damage caused by the fall of the cabinet seven months after installation where the fall results from an undiscovered defect in one of the brackets used to support the cabinet.

During the early part of 1951 a general contractor was engaged...

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