SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL. CO. v. HARTFORD ACC. & INDEMNITY CO.

No. 13254.

385 So.2d 830 (1980)

SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY and Phillips Oil Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Hebert, Jr., Pamela A. Prestridge, Baton Rouge, of counsel for plaintiff-appellee, South Central Bell Tel. Co.

Daniel R. Atkinson, Baton Rouge, Joseph W. Cole, Jr., Port Allen, of counsel for defendants-appellants, Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. and Phillips Oil Corp.

Before EDWARDS, LEAR and WATKINS, JJ.


EDWARDS, Judge.

Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (Hartford) and Phillips Oil Corporation (Phillips), defendants-appellants, seek reversal of a judgment casting them in damages. We affirm.

On August 2, 1974, South Central Bell Telephone Company (Bell) discovered gasoline leaking from an underground line at a service station in Baton Rouge. The gasoline had irreversibly damaged a Bell conduit. Replacement...

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