Pike v. Godchaux-Henderson Sugar Co.

GULOTTA, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation declaratory judgment suit, in which the defendant-*1251employer and its insurer seek to ascertain entitlement to death benefits between contending parties, judgment was rendered dividing all future death benefits between a surviving spouse, Linda Fenton Jacob (on one hand) and two minor children (on the other hand) born from decedent’s earlier marriage.1 At the time of decedent’s death the minors were approximately fourteen (14) and nine (9) years of age.

In Jacob v. Godchaux-Henderson Sugar Co., Inc., 350 So.2d 274 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1977), writ…