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PEARSON v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY

No. 52697.

281 So.2d 724 (1973)

Laverne PEARSON v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY and Shell Chemical, Inc.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

August 20, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon M. White, Darrell D. White, White & May, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-applicant.

William A. Norfolk, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for defendants-respondents.

BARHAM, Justice.

Plaintiff, Laverne Pearson, was injured on August 2, 1968 while employed as a maintenance millwright at the Shell plant near Geismar, Louisiana. Plaintiff filed suit against Shell Chemical, Inc. (Shell) in tort and, in the alternative, against Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (Hartford) as the workmen's compensation insurer of H. E. Weiss, Inc. (Weiss) on April 21, 1969, alleging that his injuries were caused by the negligence of Shell's...

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