Charity Hospital of Louisiana v. Board of School Directors

Plaintiff, in its petition, alleges that Emile Bermis of St. Martin parish, while painting a building for defendant board, fell from a scaffold to the ground, causing a dislocation with compression of the dorsal vertibrse and the fracturing of his spine; that for the medical treatment Bermis received at plaintiff’s hospital he is indebted to plaintiff in solido with defendant school board in the sum of $250 for which judgment is demanded.

An exception of no cause of action was filed by defendant board, and was overruled.

An answer was filed by defendant board, the merits were tried on a…