Wisconsin Collectors Asso. v. Thorp Finance Corp.

This case presents a difficult and important problem touching on the relationships between courts and administrative agencies. We must decide whether a circuit court is jurisdictionally competent to hear and determine issues which could have been presented to an administrative agency. If a court is not jurisdictionally foreclosed, we must also determine whether the court’s refusal to resolve the dispute in the case at bar was an abuse of judicial discretion.

The plaintiff sought to have the circuit court adjudge that Thorp was illegally engaging in the collection business in violation of sec.…