Champagne v. Waguespack

BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a worker’s compensation case. From a judgment dismissing a suit for death benefits, the claimant has appealed.

Leonard Celestin was killed in an accident while working on a plantation in Vach-erie on June 6, 1980. The decedent’s father, James Celestin, and his divorced sister, Laura Celestin Champagne, individually and on behalf of her three minor children, filed separate suits on June 5, 1981 seeking worker’s compensation benefits from the employer, Wilbert Waguespack, Jr., and his insurer, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company. The two suits were tried as a…