BURLEIGH v. SOUTH LOUISIANA CONTRACTORS

No. 87-49.

525 So.2d 87 (1988)

Bobby BURLEIGH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTH LOUISIANA CONTRACTORS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young, & Burson, LP, M. Terrance Hoychick, Eunice, for plaintiff-appellant.

Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Robert M. Mahony, Lafayette, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer & Pierson, Charles S. Seabolt/Patrick Talley, New Orleans, Fournet & Adams, James J. Adams, Lafayette, for defendants-appellees.

Before GUIDRY, YELVERTON and KNOLL, JJ.


YELVERTON, Judge.

Summary judgment was granted in favor of Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, Inc., holding it was the statutory employer of Bobby Burleigh under the Worker's Compensation Act, and dismissing it from a suit in tort brought by Burleigh. Plaintiff appeals. We reverse and remand.

Burleigh, an employee of Goldrus Drilling Co., Inc., alleges that he was injured on the job at a drilling site, Delahoussaye No. 1 Well, in Iberia Parish. He was...

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