Cranston v. Industrial Commission

The trial court held that: “This court has no power to enlarge or shrink the amount which the Industrial Commission allows as attorneys’ fees in a compensation case.” And there was entered below the order sustaining the demurrer to the complaint.

The act of the Industrial Commission in failing to allow an attorney a higher fee in a given matter than ten per cent of the award is not reviewable by the courts in an action by the attorneys. A review under the compensation act is statutory and no such right exists unless the statute confers it. In re Farmers Exchange Bank (1943), 242 Wis. 574, 578,…