Seibels, Bruce & Co. v. H. H. Burnet & Co.

Sognier, Judge.

This is an appeal in a third party action for indemnification filed by appellee H. H. Burnet & Co. (hereafter Burnet), an independent insurance agency, against appellant Seibels, Bruce & Company (hereafter Seibels, Bruce), as general agent for Ranger Insurance Company (hereafter Ranger). Over a five-year period Burnet had procured two types of tobacco insurance coverage for Douglas Tobacco Warehouses, Inc. (hereafter Douglas), plaintiff in the main case, for tobacco warehouse buildings and tobacco stored during the sales auction season. Burnet had no written agency contract…