Stypczynski v. Kaiser Jeep Corp.

Decision Date17 April 1973
Docket NumberNo. 1171A246,1171A246
Citation294 N.E.2d 830,156 Ind.App. 78
PartiesValerie STYPCZYNSKI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KAISER JEEP CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.
CourtIndiana Appellate Court

John S. Gonas, South Bend, for plaintiff-appellant.

James H. Pankow, South Bend, for defendant-appellee.

SHARP, Judge (Sitting By Designation).

The Appellant filed a Form 10 Application for Dependents of Deceased Employee with the Industrial Board on February 10, 1970 alleging Plaintiff-Appellant was wholly dependent on Louis Stypczynski who died on September 24, 1968 as a result of injuries sustained in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by the Appellee on May 31, 1968. The only item in the transcript in regard to the processing of that Form 10 filed February 10, 1970 is the form itself. None of the other proceedings in regard to its disposition are included in the record. Specifically, there is no transcript of the proceedings on it or the final award or decision thereon, although Appellant makes unverified assertions in her brief that such proceedings and award did occur.

On June 25, 1970 Appellant filed a Form 115 Application of Disabled Employee for Compensation under the Occupational Diseases Act. It asserts that the Appellant's decedent, Louis Stypcznski, was last exposed to and disabled by an occupational disease on July 2, 1968 which caused decedent's death on September 24, 1968. On March 19, 1971 Appellee filed its Special Answer which stated:

'For special answer of defendant to each of these claims, defendant says plaintiff filed Form 10 Application for Adjustment of Claim for Compensation October 3, 1968, which was the subject of the Full Industrial Board Award of September 15, 1969, by which plaintiff took nothing by Form 10 Application; thereafter on September 23, 1969, plaintiff filed Form 10 Application for Adjustment of Claim and defendant filed verified motion to dismiss for the reason the same had been finally adjudicated by the award of September 15, 1969, after which the Board found the defendant's motion to dismiss should be sustained and ordered the plaintiff's Form 10 Application filed September 23, 1969, dismissed by order of the Board of February 25, 1970.

WHEREFORE, defendant prays an order dismissing both the claimant's O.D. Form 1604 and Industrial Board No. 65403 for the reason the same have already been the subject of an adjudication by the Full Board of Indiana which has become as final award.'

On April 21, 1971, the Hearing Member entered the following order:

'BE IT REMEMBERED, that pursuant to notice fixing the time and place therefor, the above cause was set for hearing before Joseph P. Miller, Hearing Member of the Industrial Board of Indiana, on April 12, 1971, at 1:00 P.M. in South Bend, Indiana, on plaintiff's form No. 115 and Form No. 10 claims for compensation, filed on the 25th day of June, 1970, and the 13th day of February, 1970, respectively.

Plaintiff appeared in person and by her attorney, John S. Gonas; defendant appeared by its attorney, James H. Pankow.

Be It Further Remembered that on the 19th day of March, 1971, the defendant filed its special answer in said cause, in which said answer the defendant alleges that the said causes of action have been finally adjudicated by reason of an award of September 15, 1969, by the Full Industrial Board of Indiana, after which the Industrial Board found that the defendant's motion to dismiss should be sustained and ordered the plaintiff's Form 10 application filed September 23, 1969, be dismissed by order of the Board of February 25, 1970, which said special answer is in the following words and figures, to-wit:

(H.I.)

Be It Further Remembered that on the 29th day of March, 1971, the plaintiff filed her motion to deny the said defendant's motion to dismiss, which said motion is in tne following words and figures, to-wit:

(H.I.)

Said Hearing Member having reviewed all the motions filed by the parties in said cause and having examined the entire file in said cause and being duly advised in the premises herein, now finds:

That all matters in dispute in said causes of action have been fully adjudicated by the award of the Full Industrial Board of...

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  • Dunbar v. State, 2--174--A--22
    • United States
    • Indiana Appellate Court
    • May 21, 1974
    ...(1973), Ind.App., 297 N.E.2d 887; Anthrop v. Tippecanoe School Corporation (1973), Ind.App., 295 N.E.2d 637; Stypczynski v. Kaiser Jeep Corp. (1973), Ind.App., 294 N.E.2d 830.4 Bobbitt, Indiana Appellate Practice and Procedure, Vol. 1, Ch. 49, § 5, p. 439.5 Burrus v. Silhavy (1973), Ind.App......
  • Custody of Banning, In re
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    • Indiana Appellate Court
    • April 5, 1989
    ...478, 307 N.E.2d 516; Anthrop v. Tippecanoe School Corporation (1973), 156 Ind.App. 167, 295 N.E.2d 637; Stypczynski v. Kaiser Jeep Corp. (1973), 156 Ind.App. 78, 294 N.E.2d 830.2 However, we note that the Indiana Supreme Court, in State ex rel. Jemiolo v. LaPorte Circuit Court (1982), Ind.,......
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    • United States
    • Indiana Appellate Court
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  • Kujaca v. Kujaca
    • United States
    • Indiana Appellate Court
    • December 19, 1973
    ...duty to bring a proper record before this Court. Marcum v. State (1958), 239 Ind. 179, 154 N.E.2d 376; Stypczynski v. Kaiser Jeep Corporation (1973), Ind.App., 294 N.E.2d 830. On appeal, we cannot consider any matter not contained in the record. Hansbrough v. State (1950), 228 Ind. 688, 94 ......
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