Case ID: so2d_507/html/0827-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Verline NORTON on Behalf of Deceased Child, Clarence NORTON v. Louis HALE, Individually and as Lessee/Owner Employer and Mrs. David Cutchins.
    No. 87-C-0978.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 5, 1987.
   PER CURIAM.

Granted. The judgment maintaining the exception of no cause of action is set aside. The case is remanded to the district court to permit plaintiff to amend her petition to allege (1) a demand for worker’s compensation benefits based on her dependency, if the minor was in the course of employment with defendant Hale, or (2) an alternative demand for recovery in tort, if, as alleged in the codefendant’s answer, the minor was not in the course of his employment.