LeCompte v. Kay

LANDRY, Judge.

Plaintiff, Barbara Thibodaux LeCompte, instituted this action, individually and as natural tutrix of her late husband’s posthumous child, to recover workmen’s compensation benefits allegedly due for decedent’s death resulting from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot (pistol) wound purportedly occurring during the course and arising out of decedent’s employment by defendant, Fred Kay, d/b/a Kay Oil Tool Company, admittedly engaged in a hazardous business. The trial court rejected plaintiff’s demands for compensation death benefits on the ground the deceased employee was not…