Rick v. Industrial Commission

The plaintiff had the burden of proving the existence of all facts essential to compensation and if, in the mind of the commission, she failed to do so, it was the commission’s duty to deny the application. Hemans v. Industrial Comm. (1954), ante, p. 100, 62 N. W. (2d) 406. If the evidence before the commission was such as to raise in the minds of its members a legitimate doubt as to the right of the plaintiff to compensation it was its duty to deny compensation. Beem v. Industrial Comm. (1943), 244 Wis. 334, 12 N. W. (2d) 42. This court has never held, nor does the statute provide, that when…