Andrepont v. Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District

GUIDRY, Judge.

Plaintiff sued his former employer, The Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (hereafter the District), for breach of an employment contract. The trial judge, for oral reasons assigned, found that there was a valid contract between plaintiff and the District; the District breached the contract when plaintiff was terminated as port director without cause on May 2, 1988; and, as a result, plaintiff was entitled to his annual salary prorated from the date of wrongful discharge until September 15, 1988, the effective date of Act 351 of 1988. Judgment was rendered accordingly.…