Case Name: Bennie SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HOPE CONTRACTORS, INC., et al., Defendants-Relators
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1984-03-27
Citations: 447 So. 2d 638
Docket Number: No. 84-178
Parties: Bennie SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HOPE CONTRACTORS, INC., et al., Defendants-Relators.
Judges: Before FORET, CUTRER and KNOLL, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 447
Pages: 638–640

Head Matter:
Bennie SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HOPE CONTRACTORS, INC., et al., Defendants-Relators.
No. 84-178.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
March 27, 1984.
Robert L. Picou, Jr., Houma, for defendants-relators.
Brittain & Williams, Jack 0. Brittain, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-respondent.
Michael J. Maginnis of McGlinchey, Staf-fard, Mintz & Cellini, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.
Before FORET, CUTRER and KNOLL, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The defendant-relator, Hope Contractors, Inc., seeks supervisory writs from an interlocutory judgment of the trial court denying relator's exception of improper venue.
The plaintiff, Bennie Simmons, filed suit in Natchitoches Parish against relator and Odeco, Inc., alleging that he sustained injuries while aboard the vessel, The Southern Cross. At the time of the accident the vessel was working in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the shores of Terre-bonne Parish, Louisiana.
Relator is a domestic corporation with its principal office in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Odeco, Inc. is a foreign corporation domiciled in the State of Delaware, with its principal office in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Relator filed an exception of improper venue. Subsequently, Odeco, Inc. filed an answer. The trial court denied the exception of improper venue ruling that the suit could proceed in Natchitoches Parish. The trial court's ruling provides in pertinent part as follows:
"Plaintiff filed suit on July 19, 1983, for personal injuries sustained in an accident in international waters off the coast of the State of Louisiana. The plaintiff named as defendants Hope Contractors, Inc. and ODECO, Inc., asking that damages be awarded in sol-ido against defendants.
"On August 3, 1983, Hope Construction, Inc. filed an exception of improper venue. On August 15, 1983, ODECO, Inc. filed an answer.
"Article 73 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure provides that:
An action against joint or solidary obligors may be brought in any parish of proper venue.'
"When ODECO, Inc. filed an answer without objecting to the venue, Natchi-toches Parish became the parish of proper venue.
"The exception of improper venue is therefore overruled and Hope Construction, Inc. is given until February 3, 198j to file any further pleadings. "
Relator seeks immediate relief.
. The requirement of irreparable injury is met in this case in light of Herlitz Construction Company, Inc. v. Hotel Investors of New Iberia, Inc., 396 So.2d 878 (La.1981).