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DUPRE v. ROCHESTER ROPES, INC.

No. 2491.

216 So.2d 589 (1968)

Dominic S. DUPRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROCHESTER ROPES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bass & Lawes, by Eugene H. Lawes Lake Charles, and John Gano, Houston, Tex., and Bernard Kramer, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mayer & Smith, by Charles L. Mayer, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGE, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a wrongful death action. The plaintiff is Dominic S. Dupre who filed this suit individually, as the "widow" (she later conceded there was no formal marriage but contends there was a common-law marriage in Mississippi, Texas or Oklahoma) of Murphy Dupre, Jr., and in her capacity as tutrix of her minor child, Donald Ray Dupre. Plaintiff contends that her common-law husband, Murphy Dupre, Jr., was killed when a cable on the boom of a crane broke...

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