EX PARTE BLANSIT

78-878.

380 So.2d 859 (1980)

Ex parte Geneva BLANSIT, Marea Blansit, and Tinia Blansit, Minors by their Guardian Ad Litem, W. M. Beck, Sr., and Erin Michelle Blansit, by her Guardian Ad Litem, Charles A. McGee. In re Geneva BLANSIT et al. v. CORNELIUS AND RUSH COAL COMPANY, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. McGee, W. M. Beck, Sr., Fort Payne, for petitioners.

Loma B. Beaty, Fort Payne, for respondents.


JONES, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the Court of Civil Appeals in a declaratory judgment action involving Alabama's workmen's compensation law. The issue is the proper allocation of death benefits among the widow of an employee and his four children by previous marriages.

The trial Court awarded workmen's compensation benefits exclusively to the widow. On appeal, the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed (with Wright, P. J., dissenting). We reverse and...

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