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CHAMPAGNE v. WAGUESPACK

Nos. 84-CA-387, 84-CA-388.

461 So.2d 429 (1984)

Laura Celestin CHAMPAGNE individually and on behalf of the minors, Lawrence Champagne, Jr., Monica Champagne and Preston Champagne v. Wilbert WAGUESPACK, Jr., Laura Farms, Inc. and Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

December 11, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Marchand, Talbot, Sotile, Carmouche, Marchand & Marcello, Donaldsonville, for Laura Celestin Champagne, Individually and on Behalf of the Minors, Lawrence Champagne, Jr., Monica Champagne & Preston Champagne, plaintiffs-appellants.

John J. Hainkel, Jr., Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, for Wilbert Waguespack, Jr., Laura Farms, Inc. and Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co., defendants-appellees.

Before BOUTALL, GRISBAUM and DUFRESNE, JJ.

BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a worker's compensation case. From a judgment dismissing a suit for death benefits, the claimant has appealed.

Leonard Celestin was killed in an accident while working on a plantation in Vacherie on June 6, 1980. The decedent's father, James Celestin, and his divorced sister, Laura Celestin Champagne, individually and on behalf of her three minor children, filed separate suits on June 5, 1981 seeking worker's compensation benefits from...

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