Seals v. Morris

Writ Granted in Part.

The court of appeal, 423 So.2d 652 (La. App.1982), found that plaintiff Seals had been disabled from working for a substantial period of time, but limited recovery of lost wages prior to trial to 20 weeks (as did the trial court), because the store at which he was employed, had burned 20 weeks after the accident.1 This holding that “it would be unjust enrichment for plaintiff to recover weekly wages which he would not have been receiving in any event” arbitrarily assumes that plaintiff would not have sought work elsewhere after the fire, without consideration of other…