Sauk County v. Industrial Commission

In November, 1933, the county board of supervisors of Sauk county adopted the relief program provided by ch. 363, Laws of 1933, and appointed three persons, who were members of the poor committee, to act as a relief committee with whom the WERA (Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration) co-operated in setting up the county’s relief administration. The pommittee selected a relief administrator. She later resigned and the committee then appointed a successor from among four candidates nominated by the Industrial Commission.

On August 2, 1934, Edward O. Triggs, aged thirty-eight, became the…