Heather v. Delta Drilling Company

RAPER, Justice.

“The status of illegitimacy has expressed through the ages society’s condemnation of irresponsible liaisons beyond the bonds of marriage. But visiting this condemnation on the head of an infant is illogical and unjust.” Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, 1972, 406 U.S. 164, 175, 92 S.Ct. 1400, 1406, 31 L.Ed.2d 768. Thus, we must reopen and reexamine the judicial treatment of the illegitimate child in the application of Wyoming’s workmen’s compensation laws. 1

Heather, the appellant, is admitted by appellee to be the illegitimate child of Bryan. When she was only a few…