DeVille v. Employers Liability Assurance Co.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation benefits arising from the death of Willie DeVille, husband of plaintiff, Mrs. Hazel" DeVille, and father of their eight minor-children. DeVille was employed as a janitor for the First Baptist Church of Lake-Charles and the defendant is the church’s-workmen’s compensation insurer. His death-resulted from injuries received in an accident while riding his own motor scooter home for lunch. The district judge held the accident did not arise out of or in the course of DeVille’s employment. From a judgment, rejecting her demands, plaintiff…