JACQUE v. STEENBERG HOMES, INC.

No. 95-1028.

201 Wis.2d 22 (1996)

548 N.W.2d 80

Harvey F. JACQUE and Lois C. Jacque, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STEENBERG HOMES, INC., Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided March 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the brief of Patrick A. Dewane, Jr. of Dewane, Dewane, Kummer, Lambert & Fox of Manitowoc.

On behalf of the defendant-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Daniel L. Zitzer of Mingo & Yankala, S.C. of Milwaukee.

Before Anderson, P.J., Brown and Nettesheim, JJ.


BROWN, J.

The representatives of Steenberg Homes, Inc. would not take "no" for an answer. Even after Harvey F. Jacque told them that they could not cross his land to deliver a mobile home to his neighbor, Steenberg Homes' employees bulldozed a path anyway. In the later trespass action, however, the trial court found that Harvey and his wife, Lois C., had only suffered nominal damages. Accordingly, it applied the rule of...

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