Waite v. Board of Review of the Department of Employment Security

The petitioner’s claim for benefits from the temporary disability insurance fund was denied administratively within the Department of Employment Security and judicially by a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. The petitioner’s attorney then requested that he be paid a fee for services rendered in these proceedings, and the court, acting favorably on that request, ordered the director of the Department of Employment Security to pay him a fee of f 100. Thereupon, the director, claiming that the trial justice had exceeded his jurisdiction, moved for leave to file a petition for…