Stutts v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

CUTRER, Judge.

This appeal arises out of a suit for death benefits by a surviving parent under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation statute, LSA-R.S. 23:1231.

Larry Stutts, Jr. (Larry), an employee of Davis & Sons disappeared from his job as a pumper helper on a tank battery located in Grand Bay, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, April 28, 1981. A few days later, Larry’s body was found floating under a boat dock in the bay by C. B. Guthrie, an employee of Gulf Oil Company. The cause of Larry’s fall remains unknown but the circumstantial evidence shows that he somehow fell overboard from…