U.S. Fire Insurance Co. v. Swann

COVINGTON, Judge.

This is a companion case to “James E. Daspit, et al.. versus Ellen Tooley Swann, et al.”, 436 So.2d 606, and “Ellen T. Swann versus James E. Daspit,” 436 So.2d 611. This appeal was originally dismissed as untimely 411 So.2d 1173, but has been reinstated on order of the Louisiana Supreme Court in “U.S. Fire Insurance Company versus Ellen Tooley Swann, et al.,” 424 So.2d 240 (La.1982).

The evidence in the record establishes that U.S. Fire paid the amount of $75,-000.00 to the Daspits, its insureds, as a result of the fire caused by the fault of Swann and was subrogated to their…