Case ID: so2d_302/html/0634-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George and Nelda BARBIN, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 4687.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    Oct. 30, 1974.
    Rehearing Denied jnov. 20, 1974.
    Writ Granted Dec. 20, 1974.
    Dale, Owen, Richardson, Taylor & Mathews by Daniel R. Atkinson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.
    Riddle & Bennett by John T. Bennett, Marksville, for plaintiffs-appellees.
    Before FRUGÉ, MILLER, and WATSON, JJ.
   MILLER, Judge.

Defendant United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company appeals the judgment allowing plaintiffs George and Nelda Bar-bin to “stack” uninsured motorist coverage provided under one policy covering the automobile in which they were guest passengers. We reverse.

This case was consolidated for trial and appeal purposes with Barbin v. USF & G, 302 So.2d 631 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1974). We have this date handed down our opinion deciding that case.

For the reasons assigned in that opinion, the trial court judgment is reversed and set aside. It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that defendant United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company have judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ suit. Costs at trial and on appeal are taxed to plaintiffs.

Reversed and rendered.

WATSON, J., concurs for reasons assigned in No. 4688.

FRUGÉ, J., dissents and assigns written reasons and voted to grant a rehearing.

FRUGÉ, Judge

(dissenting).

For the reasons set forth in the companion suit herein, Charles and Betty Bar-bin v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, No. 4688 on the docket of this court, 302 So.2d 631, I respectfully dissent.