POPA v. HERTZ CORP.

No. 90-0989.

159 Wis.2d 632 (1990)

465 N.W.2d 213

Paul POPA and Linda Popa, Plaintiffs, v. The HERTZ CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Respondent, CITY OF MILWAUKEE, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Joint Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INS. CO., a foreign corporation, Plaintiff-Joint Appellant, v. Marie F. PESCHL, Defendant-Appellant, The HERTZ CORPORATION, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Respondent. Karl D. ZUBERBIER, Plaintiff, v. The HERTZ CORPORATION, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Respondent, Marian PESCHL, Defendant, CITY OF MILWAUKEE, a municipality, Defendant-Joint Appellant, Marie F. PESCHL and American Family Mutual Insurance Company, a domestic corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided December 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant American Family Mutual Insurance Company the cause was submitted on the briefs of Mingo & Yankala, S.C. by Wayne M. Yankala, of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-appellant Marie F. Peschl the cause was submitted on the briefs of Schmidt, Darling & Erwin by Eric S. Darling, of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-respondent Hertz Corporation the cause was submitted on the briefs of Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, S.C. by Michael J. Cieslewicz and E. Patrick Cranley of counsel, of Milwaukee.

For the plaintiff-joint appellant State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. the cause was submitted on the joint briefs of Mueller, Goss & Darnieder, S.C. by John C. Possi, of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-joint appellant City of Milwaukee the cause was submitted on the joint briefs of Riordan, Crivello, Carlson, Mentkowski & Steeves by Frank L. Steeves, of Milwaukee.

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


MOSER, P.J.

This is an appeal from a consolidated action which combined three cases which all arose from the same car accident on May 11, 1986. On that day, Marie F. Peschl (Peschl) was driving a car owned by The Hertz Corporation (Hertz), when she crashed into a police squad car owned by the City of Milwaukee. The squad car was driven by officer Paul Popa (Popa), and officer Karl D. Zuberbier (Zuberbier) was a passenger.

Peschl's mother, Marion Peschl, was...

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