ST. CHARLES PARISH WATERWORKS DIST. NO. 2 v. POINT LANDING, INC.

No. 7306.

332 So.2d 517 (1976)

ST. CHARLES PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 2 v. POINT LANDING, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vial, Vial & Lemmon, Leon C. Vial, III, Hahnville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Campoy, Stone & Harvey, William S. Stone and George Oubre, New Orleans, for Point Landing, Inc., defendant-appellant.

Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, George A. Frilot, III and Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr., New Orleans, and Becnel & Kliebert, Thomas J. Kliebert, Gramercy, for defendants-appellants Sioux City & New Orleans Barge Lines, Inc. and Wisconsin Barge Line, Inc.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre Ignatz G. Kiefer, New Orleans, for defendant-third-party plaintiff (appellee) Port City Barge Lines, Inc.

F. A. Courtenay, Jr., New Orleans, for intervenor.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Gerard T. Gelpi, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant Point Landing, Inc.

Before REDMANN, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

On Sunday morning, March 7, 1971, plaintiff's water intake facility in the Mississippi River was damaged when struck by a runaway barge, WBL-131. Made defendants were Wisconsin Barge Line, Inc. (Wisconsin) owner of the WBL-131, Port City Barge Lines, Inc. (Port City) owner of a second barge, PCBL-105, which was involved in the casualty, Sioux City and New Orleans Terminal Corp. (Sioux City) and Point Landing, Inc. Various third-party demands for indemnity...

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