Case Name: ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. Maurice J. WELSH
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1958-02-10
Citations: 105 So. 2d 240
Docket Number: No. 43073
Parties: ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. Maurice J. WELSH.
Judges: FOURNET, C. J., dissents.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 105
Pages: 240–243

Head Matter:
235 La. 613
ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. Maurice J. WELSH.
No. 43073.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Feb. 10, 1958.
On Rehearing June 27, 1958.
Further Rehearing Denied Oct. 7, 1958.
A. M. Curtis, P. A. Casey, W. B. Hol-combe, Baton Rouge, J. M. Carville, Plaque-mine, D. R. Johnson, Jr., W. W. Erwin, Franklinton, for plaintiff-appellant.
France W. Watts, Jr., Franklinton, H. H. Richardson, Bogalusa, for defendant-appel-lee.

Opinion:
MOISE, Justice.
For the reasons this day assigned in the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Welsh, 235 La. 593, 105 So.2d 233, the verdict of the jury is reversed and set aside, and it is now ordered that this matter be remanded to the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court for the Parish of Washington for a proper accounting in accordance with the instructions therein set forth.
FOURNET, C. J., dissents.
McCALEB, J., dissents with written reasons.
SIMON, J., absent.