VOGEL v. GRANT-LAFAYETTE ELEC. COOPERATIVE

No. 94-0822.

201 Wis.2d 416 (1996)

548 N.W.2d 829

Dale VOGEL and Alice Vogel, Plaintiffs-Respondents-Cross Appellants-Petitioners, v. GRANT-LAFAYETTE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, a domestic corporation and Federated Rural Insurance Corporation, a domestic corporation, Defendants-Appellants-Cross Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-respondents-cross appellants-petitioners there were briefs by Scott Lawrence and Lawrence & Des Rochers, S.C., St. Nazianz and oral argument by Scott Lawrence.

For the defendants-appellants-cross respondents there was a brief by Denis R. Vogel, Stuart G. Monschein, Jennifer S. McGinnity and Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, S.C., Madison and oral argument by Stuart G. Monschein.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Mark S. Henkel and Terwilliger, Wakeen, Piehler & Conway, S.C., Stevens Point for the Wisconsin Utilities Association, Inc.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Frank Jablonski, Madison for the Wisconsin Farmers Union.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Mark L. Thomsen and Cannon & Dunphy, S.C., Brookfield and Edward E. Robinson, and Warshafsky, Rotter, Tarnoff, Reinhardt & Bloch, S.C., Milwaukee for the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.


ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J.

The plaintiffs, Dale and Alice Vogel, seek review of a decision of the court of appeals,1 reversing in part a judgment in their favor for damages caused by stray voltage from electricity distributed by the defendant, Grant-Lafayette Electric Cooperative (GLEC). The Vogels assert that the court of appeals erred in holding as a matter of law that stray voltage may not be...

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