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CHAUVIN v. GULF COAST MINERALS, INC.

No. 86-438.

509 So.2d 622 (1987)

Jannery Lemaire CHAUVIN, Individually as Surviving Spouse of Lennis J. Chauvin, and as Natural and Duly Appointed Tutrix of the Minor Children, Michelle Reneé Chauvin and Nichole Simone Chauvin, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GULF COAST MINERALS, INC., Gulf Associates of Louisiana, Inc., Gulf Water Systems, Inc., Highlands Insurance Company, Clarence Eugene Whipp, Jr., Southern Structures, Inc., Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Ronald Thibodeaux d/b/a Ronald Thibodeaux Electrical Service, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied October 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald G. Cave, of Cave and McKay, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Onebane and Assoc., Keith M. Borne, V. Farley Sonnier and John E. McElligott, Jr., of Davidson, Voorhies and Labbe, James P. Lambert, Lafayette, Joseph Touchet, Erath, Bertrand and Soileau, Ronnie J. Bertrand, Rayne, for defendants-appellees.

Before STOKER, LABORDE and YELVERTON, JJ.

STOKER, Judge.

Lennis J. Chauvin was electrocuted on July 18, 1979 while in the course and scope of his employment with Quality Steel Building Erectors, Inc. Quality's worker's compensation insurer paid benefits to his survivors. Chauvin's widow, Jannery Lemaire Chauvin, brought this wrongful death action individually and on behalf of the couple's two children against several defendants, alleging that their acts or instrumentalities had caused his death. Some of the...

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