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KOHLER CO. v. ILHR DEPARTMENT

No. 24.

42 Wis.2d 396 (1969)

167 N.W.2d 431

KOHLER COMPANY, Respondent, v. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, LABOR & HUMAN RELATIONS, Appellant: MATTHIAS, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 6, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations the cause was argued by James P. Altman, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

For the respondent there was a brief by E. J. Hammer and K. W. Conger, both of Kohler, and oral argument by Mr. Hammer.

ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

When the Wisconsin legislature amended the Workmen's Compensation Act to provide benefits for disability caused either by industrial accident or occupational disease, it ended all doubt as to its intent. It did not eliminate all difficulties in implementing that intent. This is particularly so in cases, as we have here, involving occupational disease.

An industrial injury or accident is an event, fixed as to time and place. There may be...

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