Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Sutherland Specialty Co., Inc

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Found liable for fire damages to merchandise, furniture and fixtures, and to the warehouse housing them, and adjudged to pay $44,158.01, 1 defendant is here complaining of the award only as respects the amount allowed as the reproduction cost of the warehouse.

Its point is that since the evidence did not show, and the court did not find, the market or the fair value of the damaged building, the award of $15,481.87 is without legal basis, and the judgment must be reduced by that sum. In the alternative, it insists that if, notwithstanding the complete absence of evidence…