LaCoste v. J. Ray McDermott & Co.

LANDRY, Judge.

This is a cumulation of actions by three brothers, Murphy, Barton and Peter La-Coste seeking an adjudication of their entitlement to workmen’s compensation benefits for total and permanent disability allegedly resulting from the occupational disease known as silicosis, reputedly contracted in the performance of their duties as sandblasters and painters in the employ of defendant, J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., the insured of defendant, The Travelers Insurance Company.

Defendants filed dilatory exceptions grounded upon an asserted improper cumu-lation of actions which exceptions…