Frank I. Abbott Lumber Co. v. Home Ins.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis (in 20764) and Fred D. King (in 20765), Judges. Actions by the Frank I. Abbott Lumber Company against the Home Insurance Company, and by the same plaintiff against the iEtna Insurance Company. From judgments for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
LAND, J.
[1] The only defense set up hy the insurance companies is the suggestion that if the lumber was not “finally inspected and measured before being shipped,” as stipulated in the contract, and if the sale of the lumber had not been completed at the time of the fire, and if at said time the title to the lumber had not fully vested in the Abbott Lumber Company, then respondents owe nothing to the plaintiff.
On" September 19, 1912, the Red Cross Lumber Company entered into a contract with the Abbott .Lumber Company for the sale of 1,000,000 feet of cypress lumber, to be…
Also in this document: Dissent.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- McElwee v. Metropolitan Lumber Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
- Lehman, Stern & Co. v. E. Martin & Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912