ZASTROW v. JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

No. 2004AP276.

286 Wis.2d 416 (2005)

2005 WI App 178

703 N.W.2d 673

David ZASTROW, the Employee Stockholders of Perry Printing, Larry J. Gocker, Neal C. Kopplin, Catherine Thompson and Eunice Weihert, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Respondents, v. JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Journal Employees Stock Trust (JESTA), and Trustees of Journal Employees Stock, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Appellants, PERRY PRINTING DIVISION n/k/a Northstar Printgroup, Inc., Paul M. Bonaiuto, Keith M. Spore, Executive Risk Indemnity, Inc., Robert A. Kahlor, Steven J. Smith, Thomas M. Karavakis, Peter P. Jarzembinski and Douglas G. Kiel, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided July 8, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants-cross-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Thomas L. Frenn, Petrie & Stocking S.C., Milwaukee, and Kevin J. Demet and Donal M. Demet, Demet & Demet, SC, Milwaukee.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents-cross-appellants, the cause was submitted on the brief of Thomas J. Shriner, Jr. and David W. Simon, Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee.

Before Dykman, Vergeront and Higginbotham, JJ.


¶ 1. VERGERONT, J.

This action involves a trust agreement under which employees of Journal Communications, Inc., and its subsidiaries can acquire units of beneficial interest in the stock of Journal Communications. After a trial to the court, the court found that the trustees had negligently failed to fulfill their fiduciary duty to disclose to a certain group of former employees the availability of a longer period...

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