TEXOMA BROADCASTERS, INC. v. HOSP. CORP. OF AM.

No. 87-1422.

542 So.2d 780 (1989)

TEXOMA BROADCASTERS, INC., d/b/a KLFY-TV ("KLFY"), the Abellor Corporation, d/b/a KATC-TV ("KATC") and KADN Broadcasting, Inc., d/b/a KADN-TV ("KADN") Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, SUPPLEMENTED TO HCA HEALTH SERVICES OF LOUISIANA, d/b/a Cypress Hospital, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied June 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hardy & Popham, Ashton Hardy, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lisa Brener, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.

Before FORET, DOUCET, and YELVERTON, Judges.


YELVERTON, Judge.

In this open account suit the principal, a hospital, sought to avoid the demands of certain television broadcasting stations for advertising services, by presenting the defense that its agent, an advertising agency, was solely responsible to the broadcasters for those services. The trial court applied the law of agency and gave judgment to the broadcasters. In this appeal, while conceding that the relationship of principal-agent existed between it...

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