State Ex Rel. Uninsured Employers' Fund v. Hunt

Petitioner Uninsured Employers’ Fund, a Division of Workers’ Compensation, State of Montana, filed its petition with this Court for a writ of prohibition addressed to the Hon. William E. Hunt, Workers’ Compensation judge, upon the ground that Judge Hunt had no jurisdiction to determine the dispute hereafter described.

On receipt of the petition by the Fund for prohibition, we entered an order on December 12, 1980, temporarily restraining the Workers’ Compensation Court from further proceeding in the cause before it, and requiring an appearance from the Workers’ Compensation Court.

The response…