Kahl v. Baudoin

EDWARDS, Judge.

This is a suit in workmen’s compensation. Plaintiff, individually and as natural tutrix of her two minor children, seeks to obtain death benefits under the Louisiana Workmen’s Compensation Act for the death of her husband, John Kahl, Sr.

Kahl, a former St. Mary Parish deputy sheriff, was fatally shot in the line of duty on June 4, 1980. Plaintiff brought suit against Chester C. Baudoin, Sheriff of St. Mary Parish, for workmen’s compensation benefits. Subsequently, the State of Louisiana was also named as a defendant.

The trial court ruled that Kahl was an employee, not a public…