Jordan v. Delta Drilling Company

RAPER, Justice.

In Heather v. Delta Drilling Co., Wyo. 1975, 533 P.2d 1211, we held that precluding illegitimate children from receiving benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act in its then form was a discriminatory classification which was justified by no legitimate state interest and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The appeal before us involves the same illegitimate child, through' her deceased father’s personal representative, seeking damages in a wrongful death action and the question of her equality in this…