Mott v. Fireman's Fund American Insurance Co.

STOULIG, Judge.

This is an action filed in the Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court for St. Charles Parish by the plaintiff seeking workmen’s compensation benefits for injuries sustained while allegedly unloading grain from a barge. Defendants excepted to the jurisdiction of the court on the premise that the plaintiff’s exclusive remedy is under the United States Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Act. The exceptions were maintained and claimant’s suit was dismissed.

Plaintiff has lodged this appeal maintaining that the trial court erroneously as*925sumed that the injury occurred on navigable…