Brown v. Louisiana Highway Commission

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a compensation suit in which the only remaining issue on appeal is the extent of dependency of the plaintiffs. If they were wholly dependent on the deceased employee, who was their son, then they are' entitled to recover, jointly, the maximum amount of compensation allowed under the statute, which is $20 per week. On the other hand, if they were only partially dependent on their deceased son, then their compensation is fixed by subsection 2 of section 8 of the compensation statute as amended by Act No. 85 of 1926 (page-114), which reads as follows:

“If the employee…