BELL v. CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY

Nos. 11258, 11259.

227 So.2d 171 (1969)

John T. BELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Easom Wood Products, Inc., and Horace Edward Ledbetter, Defendants-Appellees. OLINKRAFT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1969.

Writ Refused January 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gamm, Greenberg & Kaplan, Shreveport, for John T. Bell, appellant; Irving M. Greenberg, Shreveport, of counsel.

Mayer & Smith, Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody, Meadows & Hall, Shreveport, for Carolina Cas. Ins. Co. and others, defendants-appellees; Charles L. Mayer, Arthur R. Carmody, Shreveport, of counsel.

Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody, Meadows & Hall, Shreveport, for Olinkraft, plaintiff-appellant; Arthur R. Carmody, Shreveport, of counsel.

Before AYRES, DIXON and PRICE, JJ.


Rehearing Denied in No. 11258 October 20, 1969.

PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs (in consolidated tort actions) whose demands were rejected by the trial court on a finding of contributory negligence.

John T. Bell was employed by Olinkraft, Inc., a manufacturer of wood products in their Shreveport, Louisiana, plant. On November 14, 1966, he was operating a tractor equipped with railroad wheels connected to a trailer or buggy, which...

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