GENERAL CASTINGS CORP. v. LIRC

No. 89-0546.

152 Wis.2d 631 (1989)

449 N.W.2d 619

GENERAL CASTINGS CORPORATION and Employers Mutual Casualty Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LABOR & INDUSTRY REVIEW COMMISSION and O.T. Redmond, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided October 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, S.C., with James P. Reardon and Patti J. Kurth of counsel, of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-respondent Labor and Industry Review Commission the cause was submitted on the briefs of Donald J. Hanaway, attorney general, with Lowell E. Nass, assistant attorney general, of counsel, of Madison.

Before Moser, P.J., Sullivan and Fine, JJ.


SULLIVAN, J.

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