Kuratnik v. Illinois Steel Co.

Michael Kuratnik lost his life as the result of an accident which arose out of and in the course of his employment by appellee. Thereafter, Fred Bar-net and Dominic Sevald, attorneys at law of the Lake county bar, purporting to represent appellant, deceased’s widow, who was a resident of the Republic of Poland, filed with the Industrial Board an application for compensation. On September 23, 1926, the cause was set for hearing before Edgar A. Perkins a member of the board. The attorneys appeared, but their authority to prosecute the claim being challenged, and they having failed to make proof…