OXFORD – State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. said Tuesday it wants the court's permission to look for the original copy of an October 2005 engineering report that says a Gulf Coast home's damage was caused primarily by Hurricane Katrina's winds.

State Farm and other attorneys have argued ever since the August 2005 storm about whether damage was caused by wind or water, with millions of dollars at stake in the answer.

The insurance carrier told the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi that it has searched for the document to no avail and thinks it might be in the voluminous files associated with the prosecution of former Oxford attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and others accused in an alleged scheme to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey for help in a legal fees case.

All the criminal case's defendants pleaded guilty to various roles in the allegations and either are in prison or have completed their prison terms.

State Farm is scheduled to go to trial as a defendant in December in a case related to Katrina lawsuits.

In sworn testimony attached to its motion for return of property, two people say they remember seeing the report and a "sticky note" that court copies show has written on it, "Put in wind file - DO NOT Pay Bill. DO Not discuss."

State Farms tells the court that since prosecutors say the Scruggs cases are concluded, the case documents obtained by search warrants could be unsealed and returned.