Boykins v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit brought by Mrs. Amelia Boykins, widow of Alfred Reason, to recover compensation against the defendant, indem-nitor of her deceased husband’s former employ oi’, Torsion Balance Exploration Company, because of the death of her said husband by accident while acting in the course and scope of his employment.

The suit was dismissed in the lower court on an exception of no right of action, the court holding that, as the plaintiff’s petition, on its face, showed that the accident which caused her husband’s death and his death which occurred on the same day happened more…