SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. ROSS E. COX, INC.

No. 8447.

255 So.2d 475 (1971)

SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. ROSS E. COX, INC. et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Norfolk, of Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Victor A. Sachse, III, of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, for appellees.

Before LOTTINGER, SARTAIN and TUCKER, JJ.


TUCKER, Judge.

This case arises out of a construction project in the City of Baton Rouge under a contract in which the defendant contractor was to lay large concrete pipes beneath Hollywood Street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The contract necessitated the removal of the surface of Hollywood Street and digging a ditch some twenty-nine feet wide and fourteen to fifteen feet deep.

To the south of the ditch being dug and running east and west was a telephone cable...

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