Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Lasalle Pump & Supply Co., Inc.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The question here is whether an appeal bond was discharged when the judgment appealed from was reversed in part and remanded for the taking of additional evidence on damages. The district court ruled that the bond was discharged. We affirm.

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The facts in this case, though undisputed, are somewhat involved. LaSalle Pump and Supply Company (LaSalle) brought a Louisiana state court action against a railway for the negligent destruction by fire of LaSalle’s warehouse and the warehouse’s contents. The trial court in that case ruled that the railway was responsible for the…