GREEN v. SOUTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY

Nos. 4350-4352.

94 So.2d 508 (1957)

Sylvester GREEN et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. Daniel G. BAILEY et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. Mrs. Rogenia LEGER, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nos. 4350, 4352:

Wood & Jackson, Leesville, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Plauche & Plauche, Lake Charles, La., for defendant-appellant, Southern Furniture Co. et al., tenant.

Porter & Stewart, Lake Charles, La., for defendant-appellee Kaplan et al. (owners).

No. 4351:

Robert L. Collings, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Plauche & Plauche, Lake Charles, La., for defendant-appellant, Southern Furniture Co. et al., tenant.

Porter & Stewart, Lake Charles, La., for defendant-appellee Kaplan et al. (owners).


TATE, Judge.

Essentially, the question involved in this appeal is whether legal liability for personal injuries to third persons attached to the landlord or to his tenant, or to both, when the canopy of a store building owned by the former and leased by the latter fell and injured three lady pedestrians.

In this opinion we will give reasons for judgment as to the questions of law common to the separate suits, involving the same defendants; in which individual...

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