Citing Chief Justice Dixon's dissent in Meador, the Ducote majority further observed that there was no logical reason to deny recovery simply because the cause of action was delineated as "contract" instead of tort, where courts have consistently awarded damages for mental anguish and inconvenience for property damage. Parenthetically, we note that in Patton v. Precision Motors, Inc., 352 So.2d 341 (La.App. 4th Cir.), without discussion of Meador, we affirmed a general damage award for delay, inconvenience, loss of use and mental anguish from negligent repair of an automobile. In light of the jurisprudence subsequent to Meador, we adopt the rationales of Gele, Ducote and Patton to hold that a plaintiff, upon sufficient proof, may recover damages for inconvenience, loss of use, aggravation, delay and mental anguish for negligent breach of a repair contract, irrespective of the intellectual or physical nature of the contract's principal object.
Accordingly, we reduce the amount of the award for loss of the automobile by the sum of $100.00. Finally, we conclude the trial judge properly recognized plaintiff's entitlement to an award for loss of use and inconvenience. His judgment is consistent with our holdings in Patton v. Precision Motors, Inc., 352 So.2d 341 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1977) and Nolan v. Liuzza, 301 So.2d 892 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1974). Plaintiff, a nineteen-year-old student testified that he used the automobile to go back and forth to school and work. It was the only automobile available to him for that purpose.