Court Opinion

ID: 9650462
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:38:41.374011+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:21.970877
License: Public Domain

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge
(concurring in the result).
I do not agree with my associates that the United States Employees’ Compensation Act, 5 U.S.C.A. § 751 et seq., provides appellant an exclusive remedy. I do agree with them, though, that the judgment should be affirmed, and I therefore concur in the result.
It is quite clear, I think, that plaintiff’s pleadings were demurrable under any theory of recovery. We should, I think, therefore say so, and affirm the judgment, without undertaking to decide whether, if his complaint had stated a cause of action at common law, or under the Employers’ Liability Act of Alabama, Code 1923, §§ 7598, 7600, 7601, and § 7599, as amended by Gen.Acts 1933, Ex.Sess., p. 118, his suit should still have failed, because, as appellees claim, the remedy extended to him under the United States Employees’ Compensation Act was exclusive.