AMERICAN BANK & TRUST CO. v. BYRON

Nos. 13245-13249.

347 So.2d 850 (1977)

AMERICAN BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert E. BYRON et al., Defendants-Appellees. CUMBERLAND CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert E. BYRON et al., Defendants-Appellees, American Bank & Trust Company, Defendant-Appellant. CUMBERLAND CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL INSURANCE CO., Defendant-Appellee, American Bank & Trust Company, Defendant-Appellant. GAMM, GREENBERG & KAPLAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert E. BYRON et al., Defendants-Appellees, American Bank & Trust Company, Defendant-Appellant. PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert E. BYRON et al., Defendants-Appellees, American Bank & Trust Company, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit. En Banc.

May 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Weinstein, Shreveport, for American Bank & Trust Co.

Mayer, Smith & Roberts by William L. Lowe, Walter O. Hunter, Jr., Ronald R. Inderbitzin, Shreveport, for Pennsylvania Gen. Ins. Co.

Gamm, Greenberg & Kaplan by Jack H. Kaplan, Shreveport, for Gamm, Greenberg & Kaplan.

Norman R. Gordon and Alex Rubenstein, Shreveport, curators ad hoc, for Robert E. Byron et al.

Naff, Kennedy, Goodman, Stephens, Donovan & Parnell by Ralph W. Parnell, Jr., Shreveport, for Cumberland Capital Corp.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and HALL, JJ.


Rehearing Denied, June 22, 1977. in No. 13248.

PRICE, Judge.

The principal issues in these consolidated cases are the apportionment of the proceeds from insurance to the mortgagees named in the loss payable clause of the policy and whether the insured's attorney has a privilege on these funds.

Robert Byron owed Lot 367, Broadmoor Subdivision, Unit 2, in Shreveport which was encumbered with a first mortgage of $104,500 to Cumberland Capital Corporation...

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