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JEFFERSON DAVIS ELECTRIC COOP., INC. v. MIKE HOOKS, INC.

No. 383.

134 So.2d 326 (1961)

JEFFERSON DAVIS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. MIKE HOOKS, INC., Defendant and Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 6, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Knight & Knight, by Herschel N. Knight, Lestage & Arnette, by W. G. Arnette, Jennings, for plaintiff-appellant.

Kaufman, Anderson, Leithead, Scott & Boudreau, by Everett R. Scott, Jr., Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

In this tort action plaintiff seeks damages sustained as a result of the cutting of its submarine cable installed in the bed of the intra-coastal canal. The cable was cut by defendant while conducting maintenance dredging operations in said canal under a contract with the United States Corps of Engineers. Plaintiff alleges the cable was cut as a result of defendant's negligence in dredging and cutting below the depth of 15 feet, mean low gulf, authorized...

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