Bourgeois v. J. W. Crawford Construction Co.

This is a workman's compensation suit instituted by a mother, arising out of the accidental death of her minor son while in the course and scope of his employment. The basis of her claim is that she was dependent upon the deceased boy and she asks for compensation as provided for in such cases under the statute, Act No. 20 of 1914. The father was still alive but it is alleged that they were separated and not living together.

Her son sustained the accident from which he died on the first day that he went to work and in her petition plaintiff makes the following allegation: "That the said…