Case Name: Eulalie E. COOPER v. F. C. DOYAL, Jr., Administrator Division of Employment Security, Department of Labor, State of Louisiana and Delta Airlines, Inc.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1967-12-04
Citations: 205 So. 2d 59
Docket Number: No. 2777
Parties: Eulalie E. COOPER v. F. C. DOYAL, Jr., Administrator Division of Employment Security, Department of Labor, State of Louisiana and Delta Airlines, Inc.
Judges: Before REGAN, YARRUT and CHASEZ, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 205
Pages: 59–63

Head Matter:
Eulalie E. COOPER v. F. C. DOYAL, Jr., Administrator Division of Employment Security, Department of Labor, State of Louisiana and Delta Airlines, Inc.
No. 2777.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Fourth Circuit.
Dec. 4, 1967.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 9, 1968.
Writ Refused Feb. 2, 1968.
James F. Quaid, Jr., New Orleans, for Eulalie E. Cooper, plaintiff-appellee and appellant.
Melvin L. Bellar, Marion Weimer and James A. Piper, Baton Rouge, for F. C. Doyal, Jr., Administrator of the Division of Employment Security of .the Department of Labor, State of Louisiana, defendant-appellant and appellee.
Bernard Marcus, Charles K. Reasonover, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for Delta Airlines, Inc., defendant-appellant.
Before REGAN, YARRUT and CHASEZ, JJ.

Opinion:
ON MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON THE MERITS.
CHASEZ, Judge.
This is an appeal by Eulalie E. Cooper, former airline stewardess, and F. C. Doyal, Administrator of the Louisiana Division of Employment Security, seeking a reversal of the judgment of the district court which disqualified her from receiving unemployment compensation benefits. Delta Airlines, former employer of Mrs. Cooper, is the sole defendant-appellee in the present proceedings.
The facts concerning Mrs. Cooper's termination of employment are not in dispute. Mrs. Eulalie E. Cooper was employed by Delta Airlines as a stewardess for five and one-half years. One of the conditions of her employment, which was set out in a written agreement, provides that she would be required to resign as a stewardess if she should marry. In September, 1965 Mrs. Cooper (then Miss Eula-lie E. De Blois) made plans to marry and tendered a letter of resignation to her employer. On October 7, 1965 she stated that her marriage had been postponed and asked to be reinstated as a stewardess. She was allowed to continue working as a stewardess although she had carried out her plans to marry on October 17, 1965, just ten days after she asKed to be reinstated.
She continued working until around the end of March, 1966 when, upon discovery that she had married, Delta sought her resignation which she then refused to submit. Delta then discharged her in her capacity as stewardess.
Following her discharge, Mrs. Cooper filed a claim for unemployment compensation which has'been denied at each level of review within the Division of Employment Security before reaching the judiciary. Thus, her initial ruling was taken before an appeals referee, then the Board of Review, prior to its litigation before the district court from which this appeal is taken. The matter is now before this court on a motion to dismiss as well as on the merits.
ON THE MOTION TO DISMISS THE APPEAL
Delta Airlines, Inc., appellee herein, filed a motion to dismiss the appeal filed by F. C. Doyal, Jr., Administrator of the'Division of Employment Security of the Department of Labor, State of Louisiana. The reason asserted in the motion for dismissal is that the said appellant had no right of action to seek reversal of the decision binding upon the Administrator.
LSA-R.S. 23:1634 provides in part as follows:
"Within the time specified in R.S. 23 :- 1630, the administrator, or any party to the proceedings before the board of review, may obtain judicial review thereof by filing in the district court of the domicile of the claimant a petition for review of the decision, and in such proceeding any other party to the proceeding before the board of review shall be made a party defendant. The administrator shall be deemed to be a party to any such proceeding. "
Therefore the motion to dismiss is denied.