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FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. TALBOT

No. 15888.

234 F.2d 425 (1956)

The FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK and Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, Appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Seraphin TALBOT, Mr. and Mrs. Ellie Boudreaux, and Mr. and Mrs. Dalfay J. Cavalier, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin R. Christovich, P. A. Bienvenu, Bienvenu & Culver, New Orleans, La., Christovich & Kearney, and A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellants.

William A. Porteous, Jr., Porteous & Johnson, New Orleans, La., for appellees.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from a verdict and judgments finding the driver of a school bus and the driver of a truck owned by the Lamar Advertising Co. guilty of concurrent negligence in an accident in which three high school students were killed. The appellants, insurers of the advertising company and of the school board, were sued under the Louisiana Direct Action Statute, LSA-R.S. 22:655, by the parents of each of the deceased, and the jury fixed...

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