FONSECA v. MARLIN MARINE CORP.

No. 80-C-1522.

410 So.2d 674 (1981)

Claude A. FONSECA v. MARLIN MARINE CORPORATION, Alfred Cenac, Jr. and the Home Indemnity Company.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing September 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Nelson Mayer, III, Heisler, Wysocki & DeLaup, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant.

Rudolph D. Hargis, Jr., Philip J. McMahon, McMahon & McCollam, Houma, for defendants-respondents.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff in this suit seeks damages in tort, or, alternatively, workmen's compensation benefits, for injuries he incurred when he fell from the partially completed second floor of a barn.

A carpenter with about twenty-six years experience, plaintiff was hired by defendant Cenac to complete the construction of a barn which Cenac and some friends had begun. Cenac planned to use the barn to...

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