TOP SERVICES, INC. v. POYDRAS PROPERTIES

No. CA-4402.

487 So.2d 581 (1986)

TOP SERVICES, INC. v. POYDRAS PROPERTIES, Lyons & Hudson Architects, Ltd., Claiborne Builders, Inc., Morphy, Makofsky & Masson, Inc., W.B. Moses & Company, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna S. Cummings, Ford Hardy, Cummings & Cummings, New Orleans, for Top Services, Inc., plaintiff-appellant.

George D. Fagan, Hammett, Leake & Hammett, New Orleans, for Morphy, Makofsky & Masson, Inc., defendant-appellee.

Victor E. Stilwell, Jr., Brian W. Erikson, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for Lyons & Hudson Architects, Ltd., defendant-appellee.

Ellis B. Murov, McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang, New Orleans, for Poydras Properties, defendant-appellee.

C. William Bradley, Jr., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, New Orleans, for Claiborne Builders, Inc., defendant-appellee.

James W. Hailey, Jr., Metairie, for W.G. Moses Co., Inc., defendant-appellee.

Before GARRISON, BYRNES and WARD, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting a peremptory exception of no cause of action in a suit arising out of a fire which destroyed the office of appellant's attorney. We reverse.

In December, 1983 the office of Ford T. Hardy, attorney for appellant, Top Services, Inc., was extensively damaged by a fire which was allegedly caused by the negligence of the several appellees. Among the items destroyed by the fire were numerous documents, invoices...

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