HOME INSURANCE COMPANY v. A. J. WAREHOUSE, INC.

Nos. 1825, 1826.

210 So.2d 544 (1968)

The HOME INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. A. J. WAREHOUSE, INC., et al. A. J. WAREHOUSE, INC. v. UNION ASBESTOS & RUBBER COMPANY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied June 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hammett, Leake & Hammett, H. L. Hammett, New Orleans, for A. J. Warehouse, Inc., appellant.

Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, Frederick R. Bott, New Orleans, of counsel, for Continental Casualty Co., third-party plaintiff and third-party defendant.

Normann & Normann, Frank S. Normann, Margot Mazeau, New Orleans, for Union Asbestos and Rubber Co. and Zurich Ins. Co., defendants-appellants-appellees.

Bienvenue & Culver, H. F. Foster, III, New Orleans, for Home Ins. Co. and Flintkote Co., plaintiffs-appellees.

Drury & Lozes, James H. Drury, New Orleans, for American Employers' Ins. Co., defendant-appellee.

Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson & Snellings, New Orleans, for Allied Equipment Sales, Inc., defendants-appellants, and third-party defendant-appellee.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, Gordon O. Ewin, New Orleans, and William E. Crawford, Baton Rouge, for George V. LeGardeur, Jr., appellant.

Milling, Sal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, J. Henry Phillips, III, New Orleans, for Carl E. Woodward, Inc., Carl E. Woodward and Armand LeGardeur, defendants and third-party defendants-appellees.

Christovich & Kearney, A. R. Christovich, Sr., New Orleans, for Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York, third-party defendant and appellee, and third-party plaintiff and reconvenor against Continental Casualty Co.

Gauche, Wegener & Oster, Robert J. Oster, New Orleans, for Frank S. Foster, Jr., appellee.

Before SAMUEL, CHASEZ and JANVIER, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

This involved litigation arose out of the collapse of a section of steel storage racks in the A. J. Warehouse in the City of New Orleans on April 26, 1961. A large quantity of floor tiles, which had been stored on the collapsed racks, were destroyed in the accident and the falling racks and tiles also damaged other merchandise stored nearby.

Two suits were filed as a result of the accident. They were consolidated for the purposes of trial and...

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