Case ID: so2d_531/html/0461-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LEMMON, Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James M. SULLIVAN, Jr. v. ACADIAN BUILDERS OF GONZALES, INC., et al.
    No. 88-CC-1424.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Oct. 7, 1988.
   In re Sullivan, James M. Jr.; Sullivan, Elizabeth; Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review, Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Number CW88-0413; Parish of Lafayette 15th Judicial District Court Div. “I” Number 87-5106.

Denied.

LEMMON, J., would grant the writ and dissents from the denial with reasons.

LEMMON, Justice,

dissenting from the Denial of the Application.

Plaintiff’s affidavit, stating that he asked every day for a safety belt to work on the scaffold and was refused on the day of the accident because the only two safety belts were used by other employees, is sufficient to defeat a motion for summary judgment. After the disputed factual issues are tried on the merits, the courts should decide whether an intentional refusal to supply necessary safety equipment constitutes an intentional act that is an exception to the exclusivity provision of La.R.S. 23:1032.