MIERAU v. ALCON INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. C7-85-1892.

386 N.W.2d 741 (1986)

Bruce K. MIERAU, Respondent, v. ALCON INDUSTRIES, INC. and St. Paul Risk Services, Inc., Relators.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary A. Rice, St. Paul, for relators.

Raymond R. Peterson, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SCOTT, Justice.

Upon employee's appeal to the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals from an order of Compensation Judge Jennifer Patterson requiring employee to attend a pretrial deposition, the employer-insurer moved to dismiss the appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The WCCA, with Judge Mahlon Hanson dissenting, denied this motion and vacated the order, holding that it had been an abuse of the compensation judge's discretion. The employer-insurer then...

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