REDMANN, Chief Judge.
Can a plaintiff in a wrongful death action whose own right of action depends upon the decedent's having "left no ... parent surviving," La.C.C. 2315, prove a parent's death by C.C. 70's presumption of death from an absence without news that has lasted ten years? Is a half brother a "brother" within C.C. 2315?
This appeal, from the dismissal of plaintiff's wrongful death action on exception of no right of action, raises those questions...
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