CHATELAIN v. AMERICAN CAN CO.

No. 10984.

387 So.2d 670 (1980)

Jessie S. CHATELAIN v. AMERICAN CAN COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman T. Organ, Organ & Meyer, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

John E. Jackson, Baldwin J. Allen, John E. Jackson, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and GARRISON, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal, on exception of no cause of action, of his suit against his corporate employer for damages, alleging that noise at his employment caused him a partial hearing loss and hypersensitivity to loud noises.

Accepting plaintiff's petition's allegations as true, his petition would state a cause of action for workers' compensation and it might therefore be argued that the judgment appealed from is not wholly correct...

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