Court Opinion

ID: 9661467
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:39:55.617391+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:28.907691
License: Public Domain

Fairchild, J.
(dissenting). I would affirm, although doing so would require that we overrule Leigh Aitchison, Inc., v. Industrial Comm. (1925), 188 Wis. 218, 205 N. W. 806. If there are to be situations where a majority stockholder, active in carrying on the business of the corporation, is not to be deemed an employee for the purpose of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, it seems to me that such situations ought to be defined in advance by statute or administrative rules. Under our present ruling, the question of whether the corporate entity is to be disregarded is treated as an issue of fact and left to case-by-case decision.
Dieterich, J., also dissents.