BOLTE v. JOY

No. 88-0140.

150 Wis.2d 744 (1989)

443 N.W.2d 23

Richard BOLTE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Terrence R. JOY, Thomas L. Hamlin, Robin S. Schroeder, Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan, a Minnesota partnership, Solle Robins, M. Arnold Lyons, Sidney S. Feinberg, Harding A. Orren, Bernard Rosenberg, Arnold M. Bellis, James A. Karigan, Lawrence Zelle, Robert J. Tweedy, Roger P. Brosnahan, Elliot S. Kaplan, Sidney P. Abramson, Howard A. Patrick, Stanford Robins, John F. Eisberg, Sidney Kaplan, Dale I. Larson, Alan R. Miller, Stephen A. Krupp, Thomas C. Kayser, Leo F. Feeney, Steven L. Ross, Stephen H. Cohen, James R. Safley, Robert M. Wattson, Bruce F. Burton, Stephen D. Gordon, A. James Anderson, Leslie H. Novak, John D. Shuff, James D. Steiner, Michael V. Ciresi, James L. Harlow, Mark J. Feinberg, Deborah Jean Palmer, Ernest I. Reveal, III, Bruce A. Finzen, William P. Linhoff, Jr., Michael L. Meyer, Lawrence T. Hofmann, Mel I. Dickstein, Paul L. Gingras, H. Jerome Gette, David L. Mitchell, James W. Rockwell, Patrick E. Shipstead, William H. Stanhope, Richard L. Voelbel, Terry L. Wade, John G. Brian, III, Andrew W. Hortsman, James S. Reece, ABC Insurance Company, a fictitious corporation, Defendants, DEF INSURANCE COMPANY, a fictitious corporation, Defendant-Respondent. John W. KELLEY, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HABUSH, HABUSH & DAVIS, S.C., a Wisconsin corporation, Third Party Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided May 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant there was a brief by Michael J. Jassak, and Habush, Habush & Davis, S.C., of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Michael J. Jassak.

For the defendant-third party plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by John F. Jenswold and Allen A. Arntsen and Jenswold, Studt, Hanson, Clark & Kaufmann, of Madison, and oral argument by John F. Jenswold.

Before Dykman, Eich and Sundby, JJ.


SUNDBY, J.

In this legal malpractice case the client, Richard Bolte, appeals from a summary judgment dismissing his complaint against his attorney, John Kelley. Bolte sought damages for injury to his business and professional reputation, and mental distress and anguish, arising from the public dissemination of a jury verdict in an action in which Kelley represented him. The verdict denied him insurance recovery for the loss of a building in a fire which the jury found...

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