Case ID: so2d_221/html/0561-01.html
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Author: {"author": "TATE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James E. COOPER and Excel Insurance Company, Plaintiffs, v. Hampton MARCANTEL et al., Defendants, Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Ltd., Third Party Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 2658.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Third Circuit.
    April 8, 1969.
    Cormie & Morgan, by Robert E. Morgan, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellants.
    Brame, Stewart & Bergstedt, by Frank M. Brame, Lake Charles, for third-party defendant-appellee.
    Hunt, Godwin, Painter & Roddy, by David Fainter, Lake Charles, for plaintiffs-appellees.
    Before TATE, HOOD and CULPEP-PER, Judges.
   TATE, Judge.

This is an appeal from summary judgment dismissing a third-party demand filed by the defendants Marcantel and Hebert. The issue of policy coverage raised by this appeal is identical to that this date decided by us in a companion suit consolidated with the present for trial and appeal. Miller v. Marcantel v. Employers Liability Assurance Corporation, 221 So.2d 557.

(The companion suit is by a driver injured in a collision between his truck and a combine operated by the defendants, Mar-cantel and Hebert. The present principal demand was instituted by the truck’s owner and his collision insurer to recover property damages sustained as a result of the same accident.)

For the reasons assigned in the companion suit, we reverse the trial court judgment dismissing the appellants’ third-party demand, and we remand this case for further proceedings consistent with our decision herein. The third-party defendant, ap-pellee, is to pay the costs of this appeal; taxing of all other costs to await final determination of this litigation.

Reversed and remanded.