Case ID: so2d_258/html/0571-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HANOVER INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee, v. The TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.
    No. 8684.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
    Jan. 31, 1972.
    Rehearing Denied March 22, 1972.
    Writ Refused May 1, 1972.
    W. Henson Moore and E. Leland Richardson, Dale, Owen, Richardson, Taylor & Mathews, Baton Rouge, for J. H. Jenkins Contractors, Inc. and Travelers Ins. Co.
    
      Henry D. Salassi, Jr. and Víctor Sachse, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, for Samuel L. Womack, and others.
    Gerald L. Walter, Jr. and Carlos G. Spaht, Kantrow, Spaht, Walter & Weaver, Baton Rouge, for Craig, Laird, Pearson & Foumet and Continental Cas. Co.
    Edward W. Gray, Percy, Macmurdo & Gray, Baton Rouge, for Hartford.
    Calvin E. Hardin, Jr., Durrett, Hardin, Hunter, Dameron & Fritchie, Baton Rouge, for Hanover.
    Frank J. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, for Craig, Laird, Pearson & Fournet.
    Joseph F. Keogh, City Parish Atty., Baton Rouge, for City-Parish.
    Ashton L. Stewart, Laycock & Stewart, Baton Rouge, for Plantation Pipeline Co.
    John Tharp and Tom F. Phillips, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for Plantation Pipeline and Travelers Ins. Co.
    Before LOTTINGER, SARTAIN and ELLIS, JJ.
   SARTAIN, Judge.

Plaintiff Hanover Insurance Company brought this action to recover under its subrogation rights the amount of $7,000.00 which it paid to its insured following the destruction of the insured’s house in an explosion and fire. Of the several defendants in this case, only J. H. Jenkins Contractor, Inc. and its liability insurer, The Travelers Insurance Company, were found liable and cast in judgment. These defendants appealed on the issues of liability and the rate of legal interest assessed and the plaintiff, as a precautionary measure, appealed from the dismissal of its suit as to the other defendants against the possibility that the defendants who were cast might, on appeal, be absolved of liability and plaintiff’s rights be lost as to the other defendants.

This is one of three consolidated cases on appeal arising out of the same incident and for the same reasons assigned in the case of Womack et al. v. Travelers Insurance Company et al., Number 8682 on the docket of this court, and decided this day, 258 So. 2d 562, we amend the judgment of the trial court to provide that interest on the principal amount of this judgment shall be at the rate of 5% per annum from judicial demand until paid, and, as amended, the judgment is affirmed, at the costs of the defendants-appellants, J. H. Jenkins Contractor, Inc., and The Travelers Insurance Company.

Amended and affirmed.