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HERBSTER v. UNITED GAS CORPORATION

No. 19881.

321 F.2d 71 (1963)

Robert F. HERBSTER, Appellant, v. UNITED GAS CORPORATION and Mrs. Jane Foreman, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Rogers, Lake Charles, La., Rogers & McHale, Lake Charles, La., for appellant.

Oliver P. Stockwell, Ralph J. Hanks, Jr., Lake Charles, La., Plauche & Stockwell, Lake Charles, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

In this diversity action the plaintiff sued his lessor and the United Gas Corporation, a utility company engaged in the distribution of natural gas in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He alleged that he was severely burned in a fire in his apartment caused by the defendants' negligence. The plaintiff was the only witness to the fire. There was no direct evidence of the cause of the fire. When the firemen arrived, the bedding and wallpaper were on fire. United...

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