SOUTH CENT. BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. GAINES PETROLEUM CO., INC.

No. 18171-CA.

499 So.2d 521 (1986)

SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GAINES PETROLEUM COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellant and Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

December 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker, Jeter and Jackson by T. Haller Jackson, III, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward O. Kernaghan, Shreveport, for defendant-appellant, Gaines Petroleum Co.

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts by J. Jay Caraway and Julie Mobley Lafargue, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Phillips Petroleum Co.

Love, Rigby, Dehan, Love & McDaniel by Kenneth Rigby, Shreveport, for defendantappellee, Joe J. Velotta.

Before MARVIN, JASPER E. JONES and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ.


MARVIN, Judge.

In this action for property damage, the trial court awarded the plaintiff telephone utility, South Central Bell (SCB), $46,970 as the cost of repairing and replacing on four occasions its underground lines that were damaged by gasoline leaking from an underground storage tank at a defendant's nearby service station.

The judgment cast in solido Gaines Petroleum Company, Inc., who owned the underground tank and the service station, and the lessee...

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