BOUDOIN v. J. RAY McDERMOTT & COMPANY

No. 18175.

281 F.2d 81 (1960)

Mrs. Edith BOUDOIN et al., Appellants, v. J. RAY McDERMOTT & COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Jones, Jr., Cameron, La., Jones & Jones, Cameron, La., for appellants.

Francis Emmett, New Orleans, La., Faris, Leake & Emmett, New Orleans, La., Warren M. Faris, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

For Louisiana diversity cases this term we have been confronted with several of nature's perils. In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Ins. Co., 5 Cir., 1960, 280 F.2d 491, fear by one of a little insect — a bee or a wasp — capable of doing limited harm, brought about injuries to another. Here we deal with the opposite extreme. Hurricane Audrey of June 27, 1957, having the capacity for devastation...

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