Head v. Brent Transportation Corp

JaSCHOTT, Chief Judge.

On the application of Brent Transportation Company we grant certiorari in order to *699consider the validity of a judgment of the trial court overruling relator’s exception of venue. We reverse.

Plaintiff, Robert Head, is a Mississippi resident who was injured while working as a seaman aboard the vessel MN Leviticus, owned and operated by defendant, Brent Transportation Company (hereinafter “relator”). Relator is incorporated in Delaware and has its principal place of business in Houston, Texas.1 It is.not licensed to do business in Louisiana and has no office in Louisiana.…