MILLER v. BRISTOL-MYERS CO.

No. 90-1612.

168 Wis.2d 863 (1992)

485 N.W.2d 31

Estella M. MILLER, Duane R. Miller, Tara Lynn Miller, a minor, by her Guardian ad Litem, Kenneth R. Baumgartner and Carl Robert Miller, a minor, by his Guardian ad Litem, Kenneth R. Baumgartner, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Respondents, v. BRISTOL-MYERS COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner, FIKE CORPORATION, a foreign corporation and Interstate, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation, Defendants-Co-Appellants, BUKACEK CONSTRUCTION, INC., a Wisconsin corporation and General Casualty Company of Wisconsin, a Wisconsin insurance corporation, Defendants, KAELBER COMPANY, a Wisconsin corporation and Sentry Insurance a mutual company, a Wisconsin corporation, Defendants-Co-Appellants, ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATES, LTD. OF WISCONSIN, a Wisconsin corporation, Homestead Insurance Company, a Wisconsin insurance corporation, Scottsdale Insurance Company, a foreign insurance company and Columbia Casualty Company, a foreign insurance corporation, Defendants, OEHCS, INC., a foreign corporation, Robert C. Brandys and Crum & Forster Insurance Companies, an insurance corporation, Defendants-Respondents-Cross Appellants, Joseph R. KLEIN, The Klien Company, a Wisconsin corporation, Frank B. Hall & Company, a foreign corporation and Factory Mutual Engineering Associates, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-respondent-petitioner there were briefs by James R. Clark, Kevin P. Whaley and Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee and oral argument by Mr. Clark.

For the plaintiffs-appellants-cross respondents there was a brief by Kenneth R. Baumgartner, Kenosha and oral argument by Kenneth R. Baumgartner.

For the defendants-co-appellants there was a brief by Robert F. Johnson, Laura E. Schuett and Cook & Franke, S.C., Milwaukee and Robert E. Hankel and Paulson, Hankel, Bruner & Nichols, S.C., Racine and oral argument by Mr. Johnson.


DAY, J.

This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals,1 which reversed and remanded a judgment of the Circuit Court for Racine County, Stephen A. Simanek, Judge, which granted summary judgment in favor of defendant, Bristol-Myers, against plaintiff, Estella Miller, and dismissed her suit for personal injuries.

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