Housing Authority of Lafayette v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland

HOOD, Judge.

The Housing Authority of the City of Lafayette instituted this suit to recover the amount owed on a paving lien affecting property in that city which it purchased from Oakbourne Investments, Inc. The defendants are Oakbourne, Oliver J. Le-Blanc (Clerk of Court for Lafayette Parish in 1968), and the latter’s insurer, Mid-Continent Underwriters, Inc. LeBlanc and Mid-Continent filed a third party action against Oakbourne and Investors Development Corporation, seeking indemnity in the event they are held to be liable to plaintiff.

Judgment was rendered by the trial court rejecting…