Case ID: wis_163/html/0025-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rosenbebey, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wisconsin Chair Company and another, Respondents, vs. Industrial Commission of Wisconsin and another, Appellants.
    
      February 25
    
    April 11, 1916.
    
    
      Appeal: Affirmance on equal division.
    
    
      & judgment of the circuit court reversing an award made by the industrial commission is affirmed, this court being equally divided on the question whether there was sufficient evidence before the commission to give it jurisdiction.
    Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for .Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    Proceedings under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Martin Borsenih against the Wisconsin Chair Company. An award made by the Industrial Commission was reversed on appeal to the circuit court, and from the judgment of the circuit court the Industrial Commission and Borsenih bring this appeal.
    Eor the appellant Industrial Commission of Wisconsin there was a brief by the Attorney General and J. B. Messerschmidt, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Mr. Messer schmidt.
    
    Eor the respondents there was a brief by Olin, Butler, Stebbins & Stroud, attorneys, and Adams, Crews, Bobb & Wescott, of counsel, and oral argument by Byron II. Steb-bins.
    
   Rosenbebey, J.

The question presented by the appeal is whether or not there was sufficient evidence before the Commission to give it jurisdiction to act in the premises. Chief Justice Winslow and Justices Maeshall and Vinje are of the opinion that there was no such evidence and that therefore the judgment of the circuit court should be affirmed, while Justices SiebecKeb, Kebwin, and the writer are of the opinion that there was such evidence and that therefore the judgment of the circuit court should be reversed and the award of the Commission affirmed. This court being equally divided, the judgment of the circuit court is thereby affirmed.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.