Ellis v. Nevius Coal Co.

Citations

• 100 Kan. 187
• 163 P. 654
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 291

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Adoption — Statutory Method Must be Followed — Unperformed Agreement to Adopt — Child Not Within Compensation Act. The term “legal adoption” found in the following provision of the workmen’s compensation act, “children and parents include that relation by legal adoption” (Gen. Stat. 1915, § 5903, subdiv. j), means adoption according to the statute governing that subject, and does not extend to a child taken into a family and treated as natural offspring under an agreement to adopt which was not performed.</p>