Holder v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

The issue presented in this review of an award of the Industrial Commission is whether a deceased workman’s natural children who were legally adopted by another prior to the workman’s industrial injury which resulted in death are entitled to death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The facts giving rise to this issue were stipulated and therefore not disputed. The decedent, John R. Holder, and Alice Pringle (now Cuddeby) were married on July 19, 1964. During the course of that marriage, two children were born: Robert David Holder and Kristy Ann Holder (the…