BLOUNT v. EXXON CORP.

No. 13958.

395 So.2d 355 (1981)

Eulice C. BLOUNT v. EXXON CORPORATION and Employer's Casualty Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

January 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana K. Larpenteur, Plaquemine, counsel for plaintiff-appellant, Eulice C. Blount.

John M. Roper, P. O. Box 60626, New Orleans, counsel for defendant-appellee, Exxon Corp.

Brent K. Kinchen, Baton Rouge, counsel for intervenor-appellant, Associated Indem. Corp.

M. O'Neal Walsh, Baton Rouge, counsel for defendants-appellees, H. E. Wiese, Inc., Aetna Ins. Co., Jack Ellis & Herman Thompson.

Wood Brown, III, New Orleans, John S. Campbell, Jr., Baton Rouge, counsel for third party defendant-appellee, H. E. Wiese, Inc.

Before LOTTINGER, EDWARDS and PONDER, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Judge.

The issue in this tort suit on appeal is whether the defendant, Exxon Corporation, is the statutory employer of the plaintiff,1 Eulice C. Blount, and therefore immune under Louisiana's workmen's compensation laws from suit in tort. The trial court sustained Exxon's motion for summary judgment and ruled that Exxon was the plaintiff's statutory employer. The plaintiff perfected this devolutive appeal, as did the intervenor...

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