Bellard v. Tri-State Insurance

In my view, plaintiff proved a prima facie case that he was a statutory employee, LSA-R.S. 23:1061, of Acadian Pulpwood Corporation. And defendant failed to prove its affirmative defense that Acadian was a purchaser of pulpwood. In particular, Acadian failed to prove who owned this pulpwood or who sold it to Acadian.

Acadian Pulpwood Corporation owns and operates a pulpwood yard. All of the corporate stock is owned by Mr. Robert Guil-lory. Mr. Raymond Heinen is general manager, Joseph Doucet is the bookkeeper, and Tayo Guillory is an employee in charge of unloading pulpwood at the yard.

The…