CLOVIS v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY CO.

No. 2681.

223 So.2d 178 (1969)

Elisha CLOVIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY et al., Defendant-Appellee, Universal Underwriters Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearings Denied June 18, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bass & Lawes, by Fred C. Selby, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Brame, Stewart & Bergstedt, by John E. Bergstedt, Lake Charles, for third-party plaintiff-appellee.

Hall, Raggio, Farrar & Barnett, by Louis D. Bufkin, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGE, SAVOY, and HOOD, JJ.


FRUGE, Judge.

This is a suit brought by Elisha Clovis, plaintiff herein, against Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, the liability insurer for St. Patrick's Hospital in Lake Charles. Universal Underwriters Insurance Company intervened in the suit in order to claim credit for workmen's compensation benefits paid to Elisha Clovis.

The basis of this suit is a claim by plaintiff that while he was a patient at St. Patrick's Hospital he received burns which...

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