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HENDERSON v. TRAVELERS INS. CO.

No. 60214.

354 So.2d 1031 (1978)

Rose J. HENDERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant-Relator, v. TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO. et al., Defendants-Appellees-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Fontenot, Guillory, McGee & Mayeux, Eunice, for plaintiff-appellant-relator.

Don L. Broussard, Harry V. Singreen, John F. Caraway, A Professional Law Corporation, New Orleans, on the brief, for defendants-appellees-respondents.

Lemuel E. Hawsey, III, Ronald E. Stutes, Baton Rouge, for amicus curiae.

TATE, Justice.

The claimant was denied workmen's compensation benefits. 346 So.2d 816 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1977), certiorari granted, 349 So.2d 886 (La.1977).

The question before us is whether a dependent concubine—in popular parlance, a "common-law wife"—is totally barred from receiving workmen's compensation benefits arising out...

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