New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Freeland

Almand, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case, here on a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Appeals. The sole question for decision is: Where the stipulated and agreed facts show that the natural children of an employee, who was killed as the result of an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment, are at the time of the death of the employee the legally adopted children of another, wholly supported by their adoptive parents (their natural parents being divorced), are said children, in view of Code §§ 114-413, 113-414 and the Adoption Act of 1941…