Juneau v. State ex rel. Department of Health & Hospitals

McDonald, j.

|gThe only issue before us in this case is who is entitled to the proceeds of a lawsuit filed by John Juneau prior to his death. At the time of his death, John Juneau was survived by one brother. His brother, Louis Juneau, Jr., was substituted' as plaintiff in the lawsuit but died soon thereafter. Louis Juneau’s daughter, Joy Juneau, was substituted into the suit for her father, and maintained that Louis Juneau’s children were entitled to the proceeds of the suit, while the children of a sibling who predeceased John Juneau were not entitled to the proceeds of the suit. The trial…