MAJOR TRANSPORTS, LTD. v. COURVILLE

No. 85-265.

493 So.2d 109 (1986)

MAJOR TRANSPORTS, LTD., et al. v. Chester COURVILLE, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller & Miller, Michael Miller, Crowley, for defendants-appellants.

Voorhies & Labbe, James Lambert, Lafayette, William Tabb, III, New Orleans, Roy & Hattan, L. Lane Roy, Lafayette, for defendants-appellees.

Before CHEHARDY, BOWES and GAUDIN, JJ. Pro Tem.


LAWRENCE A. CHEHARDY, Judge Pro Tem.

The only issue before us on this appeal is whether the defendant/third-party plaintiff, Chester Courville, was in the course and scope of his employment when he was severely injured in a head-on collision with an eighteen-wheel tractor trailer truck. Courville apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his automobile while he was traveling home from his job on a land-based drilling rig. (The parties have stipulated that the accident...

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