FOUNTAIN v. CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELEC. CO.

No. 89-1018.

578 So.2d 236 (1991)

Timothy Wayne FOUNTAIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC CO., INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied June 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rivers & Beck, Robert Beck, Jr., Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.

Stafford, Stewart & Potter, James D. Kirk, Mark A. Watson, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant (Argonaut).

Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, Dee D. Drell, Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.

Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., and DOUCET and LABORDE, JJ.


DOUCET, Judge.

This case concerns the question of whether the defendant, Central Louisiana Electric Co., Inc. (CLECO), was the statutory employer of the plaintiff, Timothy Wayne Fountain.

Fountain was injured in the course and scope of his employment as an apprentice lineman with Red Simpson, Inc. (Simpson). At the time of the accident, Simpson was converting a portion of an electric substation from 13.2 kilovolts to 34.5 kilovolts to provide an increased...

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