SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN

 

 

Case No.:           98-1737

 

 

Complete Title

of Case:          


Douglas-Hanson Company, Inc.,

     Plaintiff-Respondent,

     v.

BF Goodrich Company,

     Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

 

 

REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS

Reported at:  229 Wis. 2d 132, 598 N.W.2d 262

          (Ct. App. 1999-Published)

 

 

Opinion Filed:        March 10, 2000

Submitted on Briefs:          

Oral Argument:       February 29, 2000

 

 

Source of APPEAL

                COURT:      Circuit

                COUNTY:     St. Croix

                JUDGE:       Scott R. Needham

 

 

JUSTICES:

                Concurred:          

                Dissented:          

                Not Participating:  WILCOX, J.

 

 

ATTORNEYS:        For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Eric J. Magnuson, John B. Lunseth II and Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, LLP, Minneapolis, and Daniel W. Hildebrand and DeWitt Ross & Stevens, Madison, and oral argument by Daniel W. Hildebrand.

 

                For the plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by Michael R. Gray, Scott S. Payzant and Mackall, Crounse & Moore, PLC, Minneapolis, and oral argument by Scott S. Payzant.

 

NOTICE

This opinion is subject to further editing and modification.  The final version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports.

 

 

No.   98-1737

 

STATE OF WISCONSIN                    :      IN SUPREME COURT

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FILED

 

MAR 10, 2000

 

Cornelia G. Clark

Acting Clerk of Supreme Court

Madison, WI

 

 

 

 

 
 
 


Douglas-Hanson Company, Inc.,

 

          Plaintiff-Respondent,

 

     v.

 

BF Goodrich Company,

 

          Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

 

 

REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.

 

1   PER CURIAM.   The court is equally divided on the question of whether the published decision of the court of appeals, Douglas-Hanson Co., Inc. v. BF Goodrich Co., No. 98-1737 (June 29, 1999), should be affirmed or reversed.  Chief Justice SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY, and Justice DAVID T. PROSSER would affirm; Justice WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, Justice N. PATRICK CROOKS, and Justice DIANE S. SYKES would reverse.  Justice JON P. WILCOX did not participate. 

     2   Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is affirmed.