ROUNDTREE v. TECHNICAL WELDING & FABRICATION CO.

No. 9491.

364 So.2d 1325 (1978)

Patricia Ann ROUNDTREE, widow of Elmo C. Burmaster, Jr. v. TECHNICAL WELDING AND FABRICATION COMPANY, INC. and Ed Ehrmann and Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Remy Fransen, Jr., Robert J. Neal, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Leach, Paysse & Baldwin, Michael A. Britt, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellee.

James J. Morse, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before SAMUEL, GULOTTA and BEER, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

In this wrongful death action, defendants appeal from a $668,157.32 trial judge award in favor of a childless surviving spouse of a thirty year old workman who died from injuries sustained on July 27, 1974, in a thirty foot fall from an oil storage tank. Plaintiff has not answered the appeal.

Plaintiff's claim against decedent's employer, Technical Welding and Fabrication Company, Inc., and its chief executive officer, Ed Ehrmann, is based...

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