Veasey v. Peters
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Suit by Thomas Yeasey against Henry Peters, Eugene Peters, and the ¿Etna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
LECHE, J.
[4] Viewing the question of law upon which this case was decided, with the additional light shed upon it by reargument of counsel, we have, after mature 'consideration, reached the conclusion that our-former decree is erroneous.
That decree rests entirely upon the interpretation which we placed upon the cases of Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U. S. 205, 37 Sup. Ct. 524, 61 L. Ed. 1086, Ann. Cas. 1917E, 900, and Atlantic Transport Co. v. Imbrovek, 234 U. S. 52, 34 Sup. Ct. 733, 58 L. Ed. 1208, 51 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1157.
It must be observed that the statute of this…
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Atlantic Transport Co. of W. Va. v. ImbrovekSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Bass v. Yazoo & M. V. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
- Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. v. Railroad CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915