SNOOK v. HERRMANN

No. 53028.

161 N.W.2d 185 (1968)

Karen Gay SNOOK, Appellee, v. W. B. HERRMANN, d/b/a Herrmann Gardens, Employer and Auto-Owners (Mutual) Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Huebner, Johnson & Burt, Des Moines, for appellants.

Dull & Keith, Ottumwa, for appellee.


MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal by an employer and insurance carrier from trial court's judgment sustaining industrial commissioner's allowance of workmen's compensation benefits to the natural born child of an employee electrocuted while trimming trees. The child, plaintiff-appellee, had been adopted by her maternal grandparents approximately six months before her father's death.

Appellants assert the trial court erred in holding (1) a natural child of...

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