MASSACHUSETTS BONDING AND INSURANCE CO. v. ABBOTT

No. 18616.

287 F.2d 547 (1961)

MASSACHUSETTS BONDING AND INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Jack H. ABBOTT, Home Indemnity Co., and Maryland Casualty Co., Intervenor, Appellees. Jack H. ABBOTT, Appellant, v. HOME INDEMNITY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 28, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar Corey, New Orleans, La., I. D. Pittman, Jr., Hammond, La., for plaintiff.

W. Ford Reese, Adams & Reese, Richard C. Baldwin, New Orleans, La., for Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co., defendant-appellant.

Chester Francipane, Breard Snellings (of Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson & Snellings), New Orleans, La., for Home Indemnity Co., defendant-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, and CLAYTON, District Judge.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment in a damage suit brought by an inspector of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Louisiana, Jack H. Abbott, for damages sustained by him when he suffered a fall from a truck while he was engaged in his duties of inspecting vegetables.

The suit was against two defendants, the Home Indemnity Co., the insurer of one Bisesi, whose vegetable...

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