Case ID: so2d_346/html/0207-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TATE, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Leon GUILLORY v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.
    No. 59817.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 1, 1977.
   In re: Leon Guillory applying for certio-rari, or writ of review, to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Parish of Orleans.

Writ denied. On the facts found by the Court of Appeal, there is no error of law in its judgment.

TATE, J.,

concurs. The trier of fact here found that the present disability stems from a trauma completely independent of the initial work-injury and not causally related to it. The trial judge thus rejected the plaintiff’s factual contention that the later trauma resulted in a compensable aggravation into disability of a latent residual of the initial work-injury, i. e., a predisposition to re-injury or recurrence of the back disability due to a weakening or predisposition which resulted from the initial work-accident. I am unable to find manifest error in the trial court’s resolution of the facts of this case, even though conceding that the medical opinions’ failure to find a compensable predisposition to reinjury contrary to that established by the medical testimony in the decisions relied upon by the plaintiff.