GRIFFITTS v. TIGER WELL SERVICE, INC.

No. 2796.

226 So.2d 175 (1969)

Ella Stark GRIFFITTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TIGER WELL SERVICE, INC. and Insurance Company of North America, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion August 14, 1969.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1969.

Writ Refused November 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scofield, Cox & Bergstedt, by Thomas M. Bergstedt, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellants.

Knight & Knight, by Herschel N. Knight, Jennings, for third-party defendants-appellees.

Bass & Lawes, by James Collins, Lake Charles, Grenese R. Jackson, Jennings, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGE, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


FRUGE, Judge.

This is a workmen's compensation case involving death benefits. On May 16, 1966, Clyde Lewis Griffitts was fatally injured while in the course and scope of his employment with Tiger Well Service, Inc., which corporation carried workmen's compensation insurance with Insurance Company of North America.

The record establishes the following undisputed facts: The decedent had been married and divorced three times. Of his first marriage to Glynn Keck...

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