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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GUS KAPLAN, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CENTRAL PLUMBING & HEATING COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 5686.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    Nov. 10, 1976.
    William J. Doran, Jr., Baton Rouge, Gist, Methvin & Trimble by DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, for defendants-appellants.
    Russell E. Gahagan, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellee.
    Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and WATSON, JJ.
   WATSON, Judge.

Plaintiff, Gus Kaplan, Inc., brought this suit to recover damages it sustained, on or about December 2, 1973, when a vent cover blew off during a rainstorm, causing extensive damage to its merchandise. Made defendants were Central Plumbing & Heating Company, a commercial partnership between Leroy and Jimmie B. Guinn; the partners individually; Central’s liability insurer, Hartford Fire Insurance Company; Piccadilly Cafeteria, Inc.; a division of Piccadilly known as National Construction Company; Louisiana Investors of Delaware, Inc.; Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, the liability insurer of both Piccadilly and Louisiana Investors; Tudor Construction Company; and Tudor’s insurer, American Employers Insurance Company. All except Tudor and Tudor’s insurer, American Employers Insurance Company, have appealed from the judgment of the trial court awarding plaintiff Kaplan $55,777.30.

For the reasons assigned in our docket number 5683, Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Company v. Central Plumbing & Heating Company et al., La.App., 339 So.2d 904, the judgment of the trial court herein is affirmed at the cost of defendants-appellants.

AFFIRMED.