Affiliated Foods, Inc. v. Blanchard

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The plaintiff, Affiliated Foods, Inc., was the employer of Francis L. Blanchard at the time of his work-connected death. Conceding liability to any dependents, Affiliated’s insurer deposited the weekly payments in the registry of the court and named as defendant-claimants to the benefits the father, the mother, the wife and the posthumous child of the deceased. But the insurer denied that any of these *540defendants were entitled to compensation benefits.

At the trial, the facts showed clearly, and the trial judge held, that the wife was not…