BERNACKI v. SUPERIOR CONST. CO.

No. 579S121.

388 N.E.2d 536 (1979)

Victoria BERNACKI, Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Lee Opasik (Estate No. E-8972 Lake Superior Court, Room No. Two, East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana) and Glennie Kirby, Natural Mother of Heir, Rhonda Lee Opasik, Appellants, v. SUPERIOR CONSTRUCTION CO., Thatcher Engineering Corp., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

May 4, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Hovanec and John L. Kelly, Jr., Gary, for appellants.

Larry G. Evans and Karen L. Hughes, Chester, Clifford, Hoeppner & Houran, Valparaiso, for appellees.


ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

PRENTICE, Justice.

This cause is before us upon the petition of Defendants (Appellees) to transfer it from the Court of Appeals, Second District, that Court, with Judge Buchanan dissenting, having reversed the decision of the Full Industrial Board denying compensation to a posthumous, unacknowledged illegitimate child, whose alleged father (employee) had been killed in a compensable accident. It is the position of Defendants that...

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