GORE v. AMERICAN MOTORISTS INSURANCE CO.

No. 29604.

441 F.2d 10 (1971)

Willis L. GORE, Mrs. Jennie Downs, Mrs. Janet McCain and Mrs. Edith Gill, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN MOTORISTS INSURANCE CO., Hon. John J. McKeithen, Hon. Jack P. F. Gremillion, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Brewer, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert E. Leake, Jr., Hammett, Leake & Hammett, New Orleans, La., for American Motorists Insurance Co.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of La., Kenneth C. DeJean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for remaining defendants.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and WISDOM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the district court granting the motion of American Motorists Insurance Company to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We affirm.

The plaintiffs first filed suit against American Motorists Insurance Company in 1964 in a Louisiana state court seeking to recover under the provisions of a fidelity bond or policy that had been issued by the company. The trial court...

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