Indiana Department of Public Welfare v. Teckenbrock ex rel. Owen

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

DICKSON, Justice.

Appellant-respondent Indiana Department of Welfare ("the Department") seeks transfer following the Court of Appeals' partial affir-mance of the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee-petitioners Loren and Edith Teckenbrock. Indiana Dep't. of Pub. Welfare v. Teckenbrock (1993), Ind.App., 620 N.E.2d 740. The decision of the Court of Appeals was based upon its earlier decision in Indiana Dep't. of Pub. Welfare v. Payne (1992), Ind.App., 592 N.E.2d 714, reh'g denied (1992), 598 N.E.2d 608 (hereafter Payne I), which was subsequently…