Basney v. Sachs

These are applications for writs of prohibition directed against a Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner and the respondents in two cases pending before him. The applicants here are the claimants before the Commissioner. It is alleged that they filed written motions praying the Commissioner to order their attending physicians, who had been furnished by their employers, to make written reports to them concerning their respective injuries, including the diagnosis and prognosis of their condition, and that the Commissioner denied those motions. The prayers for relief are simply for writs of…