Aurora Casket Co. v. Ropers

This is an appeal from an award of the full Industrial Board of Indiana granting appellee, the guardian of Emma Laaker, incompetent, who was the widow of decedent, Walter H. Laaker, compensation for the death of the said Walter H. Laaker, who was an employee of appellant at the time of his death.

The facts are not disputed. The decedent received fatal injuries resulting from an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment for appellant on the 23rd day of March, 1945. He left surviving him his widow, Emma Laaker, who had been committed approximately eight years before decedent’s…