Boudreaux v. American Insurance Company

Decided 1972-06-29

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TATE, Justice. I respectfully dissent. The plaintiffs’ case depends upon circumstantial proof that the defendant's insurer’s negligence was the cause of the fire in the insured’s premises. This fire caused the death of the plaintiffs’ decedent as he slept in his apartment in the adjacent premises. The majority commits error of law in holding that such circumstantial proof and the res ipsa…

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