Carroll W. Maxwell Lumber Co. v. Jefferson Insurance Co. of New York

WATSON, Judge.

Plaintiff, Carroll W. Maxwell Lumber Company, Inc., a Louisiana corporation, brought this suit against defendant, Jefferson Insurance Company of New York, to recover for malicious damage to a piece of equipment, a model 135-B Franklin Skid-der, under a policy issued to Tommy Wayne Lashley by the defendant insurer. The trial court gave plaintiff judgment for $5,600, which it found to be the cost of repairing the skidder at the time it was vandalized in December, 1974. The defendant insurance company has appealed, contending that the trial court erred:

1. in holding that Lashley…