OTTAWA - Canada's highest court is to rule Thursday on whether a man who found a fly in his bottle of water should be compensated for anxiety and depression.

Martin Mustapha of Windsor, Ont. said he was forever altered by finding the insect, despite the fact he didn't drink from the bottle. He said he developed a phobia about flies, cannot sleep, is irritable and his sex life has suffered.

He sued the water-bottling company and was awarded $341,000 in 2005.

But the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned that decision, and ordered Mustapha to pay the company's legal costs.

Mustapha hopes the Supreme Court will side with the original ruling.