Guste ex rel. Johnson v. Burris

SARTAIN, Judge.

Defendant brings this appeal from judgment in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $15,000.00 rendered pursuant to L.R.S. 33:1981 which provides that the attorney general is to seek benefits on behalf of the surviving spouse and dependant children of firemen who suffer death as a result of job related injuries. We affirm the result reached by the trial court.

The facts of this case are not in dispute and appear in record in a pretrial stipulation as follows:

A) August Johnson was a paid, regularly employed fireman with the Jefferson Parish Fire Department on and prior to his death…