LAWRENCE v. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 2031.

199 So.2d 398 (1967)

Esther O. LAWRENCE et vir., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Thompson, Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, by Edward C. Abell, Jr., Lafayette, for defendant-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGÉ, and HOOD, Judges.


TATE, Judge.

The plaintiffs' suit was dismissed for failure to implead an indispensable party. LSA-C.C.P. Art. 641. The plaintiffs had attempted to do so, but the indispensable party was dismissed from the suit since he was a non-resident and Louisiana could exercise no personal jurisdiction over him.

The trial court had concluded that the non-resident was an indispensable party by virtue of a clause in the defendant insurer's policy requiring his joinder...

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