Burks v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations

There is but one question presented on this appeal, and that is whether the department’s findings are supported by any credible evidence. If there is credible evidence to sustain those findings, irrespective of whether there is evidence that might lead to an opposite conclusion, we are obliged to affirm. As this court said in Unruh v. Industrial Comm. (1959), 8 Wis. 2d 394, 398, 99 N. W. 2d 182:

“The question is not whether there is credible evidence in the record to sustain a finding the commission did not make, but whether there is any credible evidence to sustain the finding the commission…