WRIGHT v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT

Nos. 5-301 to 5-304.

433 So.2d 796 (1983)

J. Burns B. WRIGHT v. LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT, John Casadaban and Maryland Casualty Company. RICHARDS EQUIPMENT, INC. v. LOUISIANA GAS SERVICE COMPANY, Lloyds London and British Insurance Companies, Inc., T. Simons, Alwynn J. Cronvich, The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and North River Insurance Company of Morristown, New Jersey. John CASADABAN v. LOUISIANA GAS SERVICE COMPANY, LLoyds London and British Insurance Companies, T. Simons, Alwynn Cronvich, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and North River Insurance Company of Morristown, New Jersey. U.S. FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY and Maryland Casualty Company v. LOUISIANA GAS SERVICE COMPANY, the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, and Alwynn Cronvich, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Nalley Bowers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Louisiana Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, for State of La., defendant-appellant.

Anthony W. Wambsgans, Cronvich, Wambsgans & Michalczyk, Metairie, for Alwynn J. Cronvich, North River Ins. Co., and Tom Simons, defendants-appellants.

Patrick J. McCabe, Gauthier, Murphy, McCabe & Breslin, Kenner, for John Casadaban, plaintiff-appellee.

John P. Manard, Jr., and Alan T. Rogers, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for Louisiana Gas Service Co., defendant-appellee.

Dan R. Dorsey, River Ridge, for Raymond Richards, and Richards Equipment Co., plaintiffs-appellees.

Gary Breedlove, Francipane, Regan & St. Pee, Metairie, for Maryland Cas. Co., plaintiff-appellee.

David E. Walle, Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & O'Bannon, New Orleans, for U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co. and Maryland Cas. Co., plaintiffs-appellees.

David A. Hilleren, Vosbein, Hilleren & Bains, New Orleans, for J. Burns B. Wright, plaintiff-appellee.

Before BOUTALL, GAUDIN and GRISBAUM, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

The four lawsuits comprising this consolidated suit grew out of an explosion and fire which destroyed a commercial building and its contents and injured the occupant of a neighboring building. Named as a defendant was a deputy sheriff who investigated an earlier complaint on the premises. From a judgment in favor of the owner of the building, John Casadaban, the tenants, Richards Equipment, Inc. and Casadaban's insurers, the defendants, Deputy Sheriff...

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