ESTATE OF PATOUT v. CITY OF NEW IBERIA

No. 02-278.

849 So.2d 535 (2002)

The ESTATE OF Gaston PATOUT and Roy Patout v. The CITY OF NEW IBERIA, Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Opinion on Rehearing March 19, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porteus R. Burke, Burke and Cestia, New Iberia, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellants/Appellees, The Estate of Gaston Patout and Roy Patout and Squirrel Run Investment Group, Inc.

Charles L. Foret, Carol S. Hunter, Briney & Foret, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee/Appellant, The City of New Iberia, Louisiana.

S. Dwight Stephens, Melito & Adoflsen PC, New York, NY, for Defendant/Appellee, Twin City Fire Insurance Company.

H. Lee Leonard, Leonard & Leonard, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Twin City Fire Insurance Company, (Hartford).

Martin E. Golden, Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Twin City Fire Insurance Company.

James R. Sutterfield, Sutterfield Webb, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Insurers Indemnity & Insurance.

Ralph S. Hubbard, III, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, The Travelers Insurance Company, The Travelers Indemnity Company, Rhode Island.

Gary M. Zwain, Duplass, Witman, Zwain & Williams, Metairie, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Continental Insurance Company.

Craig E. Caesar, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Century Indemnity Company & Pacific Employers Insurance Company.

James M. Garner, Keith A. Kornman, Emma E. Daschbach, Sher Garner Cahill Richter, Klein McAlister & Hilbert L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Century Indemnity Company & Pacific Employers Insurance Company.

Samuel Rosamond, III, Boggs, Leohn & Rodrigue, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Commercial Union Insurance Company.

Scott R. Hoyt, Gibson, Dunn & Cretcher, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Defendants/Appellees, Century Indemnity Company & Pacific Employers Insurance Company.

C. Burwick Duval, II, Duval, Funderburk, Sundbery and Lovell, L.L.P., Houma, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, United Community Insurance Company.

Kelly Cambre Bogart, Andrew D. Weinstock, Kathleen C. Marksbury, Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois & Morton, Metairie, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Twin City Fire Insurance Company.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, SYLVIA R. COOKS and JIMMIE C. PETERS, Judges.


THIBODEAUX, Judge.

In this suit for trespass, plaintiffs, the heirs of Gaston and Roy Patout ("Patout") and Squirrel Run Investment Group, Inc. ("Squirrel Run"), and defendant-appellant, the City of New Iberia ("City"), appeal the judgment of the trial court which granted defendants', Century Indemnity Company ("Century") and Pacific Employers Insurance Company ("PEIC"), motions for summary judgment on the basis of assumed or contractual liability and on the "sudden...

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