NOTZ v. EVERETT SMITH GROUP, LTD.

No. 2006AP3156.

764 N.W.2d 904 (2009)

2009 WI 30

Edward U. NOTZ, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Respondent-Petitioner, v. EVERETT SMITH GROUP, LTD., Thomas J. Hauske, Jr., Randall M. Perry, Anders Segerdahl, Steven J. Hartung and Albert Trostel & Sons Company, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided April 29, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant-cross-respondent-petitioner there were briefs by Robert H. Friebert, Matthew W. O'Neill, and Friebert, Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Matthew W. O'Neill.

For the defendants-respondents-cross-appellants-cross petitioners there were briefs by Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., G. Michael Halfenger, and Rebecca Wickhem House, and Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Thomas L. Shriner, Jr.


¶ 1 N. PATRICK CROOKS, J.

This review of a published court of appeals decision1 involves three questions that arise in the context of a minority shareholder's lawsuit against the majority shareholder: (1) whether the allegations in the complaint state a direct claim by the minority shareholder for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) whether an allegation that the majority shareholder benefited from due diligence—paid for by the corporation...

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