BUTLER v. ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC.

No. 2004AP1991.

282 Wis.2d 776 (2005)

2005 WI App 108

698 N.W.2d 117

Thomas G. BUTLER, Mary J. Butler, Steven J. Grundahl, Nancy J. Grundahl, James A. Gallop, Maureen Gallop, Greg Kittelsen, Edith Kittelsen, Duane Schwartz, Joan Schwartz, Dewey Mullikin, Juanita Mullikin, Helen Brekke, Phillip Jones, Susan Jones, Allen Hall, Florence Hall, Michael Singer, Noel Singer, H. James Jacobsen, Debby Jacobsen, Scott Blanck, Dana Blanck and Larry Kinney and Karen Kinney, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Albert KEMPF, Pat Kempf, Dale E. Johnson, Joan L. Johnson, Harold M. Flolid, Karen A. Flolid, Carolyn Ousdigian, Ted Ousdigian, Jeremy Ferris, June Ferris, Suzanne Meland, Michael T. Meland, Estate of Maxine Lenz, Daryl Erdman, Audrey Erdman, Lawrence J. Jarvela, Patricia D. Jarvela, Joann Yohn, Stephen Yohn, Jerry Greeley, Karen Greeley, Niel R. Petersen, Marlys J. Petersen, Karen Ek, Bill Ek, Charles Peterson, Douglas J. Gallop, Shirley Gallop, Mike Evavold, Mark R. Parks, Art Kosieradzki, Jeanne Kosieradzki, Gary C. Boyum, Eleanor Kay Boyum and Beverly Gallop and Bud Gallop, Intervening-Plaintiffs-Appellants, Thomas E. FERRIS and Joy Linda Ferris, Intervening-Plaintiffs, v. ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC., Daniel Kling and ECG, Inc., Defendants-Respondents, CITY OF SHELL LAKE, Defendant, CINCINNATI INSURANCE COMPANY and Gulf Underwriters Insurance Company, Intervening-Defendants-Respondents, BOB THOMPSON & SONS and Thompson Sand & Gravel, Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. HOFFMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY and Wausau Insurance Companies, Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided April 26, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants and intervening plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Steven B. Goff and Tracy N. Tool, Bye, Goff & Rohde, Ltd., River Falls; and Matthew A. Biegert and Michael J. Brose, Doar, Drill & Skow, S.C., New Richmond.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the briefs of William J. Katt and Mark D. Malloy, Leib & Katt, S.C., Milwaukee, and Thomas J. Graham, Jr. and Christine A. Gimber, Weld, Riley, Prenn & Ricci, S.C., Eau Claire.

On behalf of the intervening defendant-respondent Cincinnati Insurance, the cause was submitted on the brief of Mark Rattan and James P. Odda, Litchfield Cavo, Brookfield.

On behalf of the defendants-third-party plaintiffs-respondents and third-party defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of J. David Rice, Rice, Heitman & Davis, S.C., Sparta; Patrick H. O'Neill, Jr., O'Neill & Murphy, LLP, St. Paul, MN; and Timothy J. Muldowney, LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn, Madison.

Before Vergeront, Lundsten and Higginbotham, JJ.


¶ 1. VERGERONT, J.

This appeal arises out of a project undertaken by the City of Shell Lake to divert water from Shell Lake in order to lower the water level. The owners of property abutting the lake sued the City and others involved in the project, alleging that the project failed due to negligence and their property was damaged as a result. The circuit court granted summary...

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