SMITH v. LONDON

No. 11837.

398 So.2d 1231 (1981)

Mutana SMITH et al v. Anetta LONDON et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Farrell, Jr., New Orleans, for Clarence Mason, Sr., Cedric Troy Mason, Debra Ann Mason Brooks, Clarence Mason,

Jr., Howard Mason, James Eric Mason and Vera Louise Mason Ross.

David M. Cambre, Dillon & Cambre, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before GULOTTA and SCHOTT, JJ., and MELVYN J. PEREZ, Assigned Judge.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiffs, who are the parents and siblings of decedent Lawrence Mark Mason, appeal from a judgment dismissing their wrongful death action brought under LSA C.C. Art. 2315. Their petition was filed jointly with that of Mutana Smith, the mother and natural tutrix of Bethamie Smith, the illegitimate child of Lawrence Mark Mason. The trial court dismissed appellants' suit on exceptions of no right and/or cause of action noting that "the defect complained...

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