Blansit v. Cornelius and Rush Coal Co.

HOLMES, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action involving Alabama’s workmen’s compensation law.

The trial court determined that the defendant widow was entitled to the deceased employee’s workmen’s compensation benefits. The minor children from prior marriages of the deceased employee appeal. The minor children contend the trial court erred in awarding the workmen’s compen*855sation benefits to the widow to the exclusion of the minor children. We affirm.

Section 25-5-62, Code of Ala.1975, is as follows:

A wife, child, husband, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, sister, brother,…