Thebault v. City of New Orleans

JOHNSON, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff workmen’s compensation of $35.00 per week for a period not to exceed 400 weeks. Plaintiff filed suit, individually and as tutrix of four of her minor children, to recover for the death of her brother-in-law, alleging she and her four minor children were dependent members of decedent’s household.

The decedent, Merlin N. Schmidt, a firefighter with the New Orleans Fire Department, collapsed and died at the scene of a fire, in the course of his employment, on October 28, 1960. Death was attributed to an occlusion of the right…