Court Opinion

ID: 3426379
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:54:35.724687+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:23.956794
License: Public Domain

Niculae Boeriu lost his life as the result of an accident which arose out of and in the course of his employment by appellee. Thereafter, on behalf of the widow of Boeriu, appellant filed with the Industrial Board an application for compensation, the application being entitled: "George Bucur, representing the interests of Anisia Boeriu, the widow of the late Niculae Boeriu, deceased, vs. Inland Steel Company." A demurrer to the application on the ground of defect of parties was overruled, and the board, having heard the evidence, found that Bucur was not the real party in interest and made an order denying compensation.
The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the claim for compensation could be filed and prosecuted by Bucur on behalf of the widow, as the record shows it was done in this case. One of the exceptions to the general provision of the Code of Civil Procedure of this state (§§ 258 and 259 Burns 1926) requiring actions to be brought in the name of the real party in interest is that an action may be brought by the trustee of an express trust, and appellant contends that this case comes within the exception. We do not concur in that view. In the application, appellant does not aver that he was a trustee, and at the hearing there was no evidence that he was trustee for Anisia Boeriu; so far as the evidence is concerned, appellant merely assumed to act for and on her behalf. *Page 686 
The Industrial Board correctly held that the appellant was not the real party in interest. See Campbell v. Fichter (1907),168 Ind. 645, 81 N.E. 661, 11 Ann. Cas. 1089; Marion Bond Co.
v. Mexican Coffee, etc., Co. (1902), 160 Ind. 558, 65 N.E. 748.
Affirmed.