MRS. BARBARA JANUSA SMITH, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NATURAL TUTRIX OF HER MINOR CHILDREN, LEE ROY SMITH, III AND RAYMOND SMITH, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,
v.
ASSOCIATED PIPE LINE CONTRACTORS, INC. AND TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES, LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, INTERVENOR
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The court affirmed the summary judgment for the defendant employer.
Plaintiff's husband was killed in a car accident caused by defendant's employee, Nugent. The employer had previously been found not liable under the J…
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PER CURIAM:
Plaintiff’s husband was killed in a two-car collision which resulted from the negligence of defendant’s employee, Nugent. We have previously sustained a summary judgment denying liability of the employer under the Jones Act for the death of a fellow-employee guest passenger riding with Nugent on the ground that the driver Nugent was not in the course of his employment at the time of the accident. Moore v. Associated Pipeline Contractors, 468 F. 2d 815 (5th Cir. 1972).
Plaintiff contends that Nugent was acting in the course and scope of his employment, under Louisiana law,1 at the time of the collision with her husband’s automobile. We affirm the summary judgment for the defendant on the basis of the opinion of the District Court. Smith v. Associated Pipe Line Contractors, Inc., 357 F.Supp. 493 (W.D.La.1972).
Affirmed.
. Louisiana Civil Code of 1870, Article 2370.
Masters and employers are answerable for the damage occasioned by their servants and overseers, in the exercise of the functions in which they are employed.
Teachers and artisans are answerable for the damage caused by their scholars or apprentices, while under their superintendence.
In the above cases, responsibility only attaches, when the masters or employers, teachers and artisans, might have prevented the act which caused the damage, and have not done it. See O’Brien v. Traders & General Insurance Co., 136 So. 2d 852 (La.App.1961).
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