ELMWOOD PLANTATION v. RUUD WATER HEATER DIV.

No. 82-CA-233.

435 So.2d 507 (1983)

ELMWOOD PLANTATION, INC. v. RUUD WATER HEATER DIVISION, CITY INVESTING COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

June 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. McCann, James A. McCann and Paul Mirabile, McCann, McCann & Mirabile, Thomas L. Giraud, Salvador M. Cusimano and Charles Verderame, Giraud, Cusimano & Verderame, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Leonard Young, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellee.

Neville M. Landry, Thomas G. O'Brien, New Orleans, Ann Cynthia Diamond, New York City, for defendants-appellants.

Before CHEHARDY, BOWES and GAUDIN, JJ.


BOWES, Judge.

Defendants appeal a judgment of the district court finding them liable to plaintiff for property damage suffered in a fire at the Elmwood Plantation Restaurant in December of 1978. We affirm in part and reverse in part the judgment of the trial court.

At approximately 4:00 a.m. on the morning of December 18, 1978, a fire occurred at the Elmwood Plantation Restaurant (hereinafter Elmwood) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Present in the restaurant...

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