Case Name: David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Erostine Young, widow of Emile Auguste, et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al.; David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Eliza Collins et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1974-06-26
Citations: 297 So. 2d 510
Docket Number: Nos. 6263, 6264
Parties: David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Erostine Young, widow of Emile Auguste, et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al. David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Eliza Collins et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al.
Judges: Before LEMMON, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 297
Pages: 510–512

Head Matter:
David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Erostine Young, widow of Emile Auguste, et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al. David H. COLLINS, as Administrator of the Succession of Eliza Collins et al. v. Joseph L. BECNEL, his insurer, et al.
Nos. 6263, 6264.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
June 26, 1974.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 1, 1974 in No. 6264.
Writ Refused Oct. 4, 1974.
Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Tucker H. Couvillion, III, and Harvey J. Lewis, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.
G. Walton Caire, Edgard, and Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel & Johnson, John J. Hainkel, Jr., Christovich & Kearney, A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.
Before LEMMON, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.

Opinion:
LEMMON, Judge.
Plaintiffs are the aunts and uncles of Erostine Young Auguste, who was killed with her mother and husband in an automobile accident. Counsel stipulated that there was no evidence to indicate the deaths were other than simultaneous. At the time Mrs. Auguste had no living children or father.
Plaintiffs contend that under C.C. arts. 936-939 Mrs. Auguste (age 28) must be presumed to have survived her mother (age 50) and her husband (age 39) and that Mrs. Young's right to recover for her mother's and husband's wrongful deaths was inherited by plaintiffs upon Mrs. Young's death.
Defendants filed an exception of no right of action and a motion for summary judgment, which was granted by the trial court
In Collins v. Becnel, 297 So.2d 506, No. 6264 on the docket of this court, consolidated with this case for argument and decided this day, we held that C.C. arts. 936-939's presumptions of survivorship have no application to determine wrongful death action beneficiaries under C.C. art. 2315.
Accordingly, we hold in this case that Mrs. Auguste did not actually survive her mother and husband and that no right ever accrued to her to recover for their wrongful deaths. Mrs. Auguste therefore never had a right of action for plaintiffs to inherit.
Additionally, plaintiffs have no right of action for Mrs. Auguste's wrongful death as her aunts and uncles, since aunts and uncles are not among the beneficiaries enu merated in C.C. art. 2315. Neither is the succession representative enumerated, and we must also deny the claim for funeral expenses by the administrator of Mrs. Au-guste's succession.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
SCHOTT, J., dissents and assigns reasons.
. Counsel also stipulated that the deaths were instantaneous and that there was thus-no survival action resulting from this casualty.