Moore v. Capitol Glass Supply Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in the district court which sustained exceptions of no right or no cause of action directed against her petition and dismissed her suit.

The demand is one for compensation under the Employers' Liability Law, Act 20 of 1914 and its amendments, arising out of the death, by accidental injury, of one Earl Moore, a colored man, while working for Capitol Glass Supply Company, in the City of Baton Rouge.

In her petition the plaintiff alleged that at and for a period of about six years prior to his death, she had lived with the decedent, Earl Moore, as his wife and…