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LUTTRELL v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

No. 87-642.

532 So.2d 389 (1988)

Perry LUTTRELL Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied December 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandoz, Sandoz & Schiff, Leslie J. Schiff/Anne E. Watson, Opelousas, for plaintiff/appellee.

McLure & McLure, John G. McLure, Alexandria, for defendants/appellants.

Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Thomas G. Zentner, Jr., Monroe, for third-party defendants.

J. Reed Walter, Jena, Gold, Simon, Weems, Bruser, Sharp, Sues & Rundell, Peggy St. John, Alexandria, for intervenor.

Before DOMENGEAUX, KNOLL and KING, JJ.

KNOLL, Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether Loescher v. Parr, 324 So.2d 441 (La.1975), imposes strict liability on a landowner when a recognizably dead tree in the middle of a forest falls on a professional logger immediately after he felled a nearby tree.

International Paper Company (hereafter IPC) entered into a written contract with McDougald Brothers, Inc. (hereafter McDougald) to cut certain timber on its lands...

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