HORNE v. LIBERTY FURNITURE CO.

No. 83-CA-738.

452 So.2d 204 (1984)

J.B. HORNE, Jr. v. LIBERTY FURNITURE COMPANY, Travelers Insurance Company, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Denied September 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. David, Nick F. Noriea, Jr., Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

John C. Combe, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Wood Brown, III, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Joseph F. Clark, Jr., Hammett, Leake & Hammett, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellee.

Before BOUTALL, KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

The plaintiff, J.B. Horne, Jr., an employee of Levitz Furniture Store, brought this suit in tort to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when, on February 3, 1976, a chair he was occupying in the employees' lounge collapsed. The defendants in the suit were Liberty Furniture Corporation, the manufacturer of the chair; Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin, the manufacturer's product liability insurer; John Wilkins, general...

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