Legal Opinion
Perkins v. Brownell-Drews Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 3, 1920No. 23839PublishedCited by 22 opinions
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Jerry Oline, Judge. Suit by Abe Perkins and Priscilla Perkins against the Brownell-Drews Lumber Company, Limited. From judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PROY0STY, J.
Plaintiffs sue under the Employers’ Liability Act (Laws 1914, p. 44) in damages as heirs of their child ivho was killed in the course of his employment at defendant’s sawmill. The defense is that the child was illegitimate, and had never been acknowledged by either of the plaintiffs. Article 203, C. C., provides:
“The acknowledgment of an illegitimate child shall be made by a declaration executed before a notary public, in presence of two witnesses, by the father and mother, or either of them, whenever it shall not have been made in the registering of the birth or baptism of such…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Succession of VanceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
- Lange v. RichouxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1834
- Succession of LacosstSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
- Succession of FortierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
- Briggs v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Fennell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
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- Succession of BonnerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
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