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GRETNA MACH. & IRON WKS. v. SOUTHWESTERN SUGAR, ETC.

No. 1471.

166 So.2d 54 (1964)

GRETNA MACHINE AND IRON WORKS, INC. v. SOUTHWESTERN SUGAR AND MOLASSES COMPANY, Industrial Moiasses Corporation, National Molasses Company, and Southern Pacific Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, L. J. Lautenschlaeger, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiffs and appellants.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, Harry McCall, Jr., New Orleans, for Southern Pacific Co., defendant and appellee.

Monroe & Lemann, Nigel E. Rafferty and Kenneth W. Ford, New Orleans, for Somolco, Inc. (formerly Southwestern Sugar & Molasses Co.), defendant.

Bienvenu & Culver, P. A. Bienvenu, New Orleans, for National Molasses Co., defendant.

Before McBRIDE, REGAN and CHASEZ, JJ.

McBRIDE, Judge.

On September 17, 1962, a large storage tank located in Gretna, Parish of Jefferson, collapsed, and as a result of said incident its contents, consisting of blackstrap molasses, spewed out over the adjacent property and allegedly caused damage to certain barges under construction by Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc., which jointly with its builder's risk insurer and partial subrogee brought suit to recover damages in solido from Southwestern Sugar...

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