Case Name: Petition of Long: Long, Appellant, vs. The State, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1922-03-14
Citations: 176 Wis. 361
Docket Number: 
Parties: Petition of Long: Long, Appellant, vs. The State, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 176
Pages: 361–366

Head Matter:
Petition of Long: Long, Appellant, vs. The State, Respondent.
February 7
March 14, 1922.
Appeal: Right to appeal: Appeals not given by statute: Compensation to innocent person imprisoned for crime: Decision of board of control: Review.
1. In cases where a new right is created by statúte and a remedy prescribed, the prescribed remedy is exclusive. The right of appeal, being purely statutory, does not exist where it is not given by statute.
2. Sec. 3047, Stats., providing that appeals may be taken from the circuit court to the supreme court, is not applicable where the circuit court is given power to review the proceedings of special inferior tribunals, boards, and commissions^ which have power to perform certain limited specific administrative or gííím'-judicial duties, where the law creating the tribunal, board, or commission gives no right of appeal from the determination of the circuit court.
3. An appeal does not lie to this court from a judgment of the circuit court dismissing a petition for compensation on account of unlawful imprisonment, on appeal from the disallowance of the claim by the board created by sec. 3203a, Stats., for the relief of persons who have served terms of imprisonment upon conviction of crime of which they were innocent, notwithstanding sec. 3047 provides for appeals to this court from the circuit court, since the right of appeal from the judgment of the circuit court in such case is not provided for by statute.
Eschweiler, J., dissents.
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge.
Dismissed.
By sec. 3203&, Stats. 1919, the governor and the members of the state board of control were constituted a board to be known as the board for the relief of persons who have served terms of. imprisonment upon conviction of crime against the state of which they were innocent. Provision is made for presentation of the case by petition to the board, and upon such hearing the board is required to find that it is clearly beyond reasonable doubt that the petitioner was innocent of the crime or offense for which he suffered imprisonment, and in determination of the issue the board is limited by the terms of the statute to consideration of such evidence or circumstances as have been discovered or as have arisen since the trial and conviction. If the board finds that the petitioner was innocent with certain limitations prescribed by the act, compensation may be awarded. By sub. 5 the board is required to keep a full and complete record of its proceedings in each case and of all the evidence produced before it. “The findings and the award of the board shall be subject to review on an appeal, by the circuit court for Dane county, but the appeal shall be subject to the same limitations as apply to the findings and awards made by the board.”
'The petitioner had a hearing before the board. His claim was disallowed. He applied to the circuit court for Dane county and that court entered a judgment dismissing the petitioner’s application, from which judgment the petitioner appeals to this court. The respondent moves to dismiss the appeal.
For the appellant there was a brief by Wallace Ingalls of Racine, attorney, and F. ■ M. Wylie of Madison, of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Wylie.
For the respondent there was a brief by the Attorney General and Winfield W. Gilman, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Mr. Gilman.

Opinion:
Rosenberry, J.
On behalf of the petitioner it is argued that by the provisions of sec. 3047, Stats., an appeal lies in this case. It is there provided: "Appeals to the supreme court may be taken from the circuit courts . . ."
On behalf of the respondent it is contended that under the doctrine of Clancy v. Fire and Police Comm'rs, 150 Wis. 630, 138 N. W. 109, no right of appeal to the supreme court having been provided by the statute which created the right and prescribed the remedy, none exists. While the language under consideration in the case of Clancy v. Fire and Police Comm'rs is materially different from the language of sec. 3203a, in that sub. 22 of the act under consideration in the C-lancy Case contained a provision to' the effect that if the decision of the board be sustained on review by the circuit court the order of discharge should be final and coúclusive in all cases, nevertheless the authorities there cited and the reasons there given -are controlling. In cases where a new right is created and a remedy prescribed, the prescribed remedy is exclusive. The right of appeal is. purely statutory, and in cases where it is not given in statutes such as the one under consideration it does not exist. State ex rel. Cook v. Houser, 122 Wis. 534, 100 N. W. 964; Puffer v. Welch, 141 Wis. 304, 124 N. W. 406. The decision in the Clancy Case went upon two grounds and would have been decided as it was if sub. 22 had not contained the language it did.
In the Clancy Case it was argued, as here, that the right of appeal existed because the language of the act brought it within the terms of the statute (sec. 3047). The necessary inference from the decision in that case is that sec. 3047, giving the right of appeal, does not apply to a situation such as is presented by the facts in this case. It is applicable only to those judgments rendered in the usual and ordinary course of judicial proceedings and is not applicable where the circuit court is given power to review the proceedings of special inferior tribunals, boards, and commissions which have power to perform certain limited specific administrative or gMiw-judicial duties where the law creating the tribunal, board, or commission gives no right of appeal from the determination of the circuit court.
By the Court. — Motion to dismiss .the appeal is granted, and the appeal is hereby dismissed.