Wilkie v. Langlois

DORE, Judge.

This is a suit instituted by the plaintiff and appellant under the Employers’ Liability Act, being Act No. 20 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana for the year 1914, and commonly designated as the Burke-Roberts Employers’ Liability Act. The suit was dismissed in the lower court under the plea of no cause or right of action, and the plaintiff has appealed from that judgment to this court.

It is quite clear that the plaintiff’s original petition did not disclose a cause of action under the act in question, because it failed to allege that the hurts or injuries suffered…