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THOMPSON v. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL. CO.

No. 81-C-2305.

411 So.2d 26 (1982)

Don THOMPSON v. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY and New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Moore, of Moore & Walters, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-applicant.

Daniel Lund, Sylvia Landry Holder, and Gus A. Fritchie, III, of Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Michael E. Wanek, of Hulse, Nelson & Wanek, Floyd Greene, Raymon G. Jones, of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents.

DENNIS, Justice.

Plaintiff, Don Thompson, was working for W. S. Cifers Construction Company, Inc., as a jackhammer operator breaking up concrete and digging an underground pathway for a conduit on Tchoupitoulas Street in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. Thompson was shocked, burned and severely disfigured when the airhammer he was operating came in contact with a buried cable carrying 13,000 volts of electricity.

Thompson filed suit against South Central...

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