Case Title: St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company v. Curtis J. Keltgen

Citation: 2004 WI 37

Docket Number: 2002AP001249

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
2004 WI 37 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
02-1249 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company,  
          Plaintiff-Third-Party Defendant- 
          Respondent, 
     v. 
Curtis J. Keltgen,  
          Defendant-Third-Party Plaintiff- 
          Appellant-Cross-Respondent-Petitioner, 
Paulet Keltgen,  
          Intervenor-Third-Party Plaintiff, 
     v. 
Giles Smith,  
          Third-Party Defendant, 
L.E. Phillips Career Development Center,  
Inc.,  
          Third-Party Defendant- 
          Respondent-Cross-Respondent, 
Venture Insurance Company and Wausau Insurance 
Company,  
          Third-Party Defendants- 
          Respondents-Cross-Appellants. 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
2003 WI App 53 
Reported at: 260 Wis. 2d 523, 659 N.W.2d 906 
(Ct. App. 2003- Published) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
April 2, 2004   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
February 12, 2004   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Eau Claire   
 
JUDGE: 
Thomas H. Barland   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: SYKES, J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
For St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company and L.E. 
Phillips Career Development Center there was a brief by John P. 
Richie and Richie, Wickstrom & Wachs, LLP, Eau Claire, and 
 
 
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Gregory Deckert and Vest & Deckert, P.A., Brooklyn Center, MN, 
and oral argument by John P. Richie. 
 
For Curtis J. Keltgen there were briefs by Phillip P. 
Todryk and Todryk Law Office, S.C., Hudson, and oral argument by 
Phillip P. Todryk. 
 
For Wausau Insurance Company there was a brief by Robert J. 
Dreps, James D. Peterson and La Follette Godfrey & Kahn, 
Madison, and oral argument by James D. Peterson. 
 
An amicus curiae brief was filed by William C. Gleisner, 
III and Law Offices of William Gleisner, Milwaukee; Rhonda L. 
Lanford and Habush, Habush & Rottier, S.C., Madison, on behalf 
of the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers. 
 
 
2004 WI 37 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  02-1249  
(L.C. No. 
97 CV 457) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company,  
 
          Plaintiff-Third-Party Defendant- 
          Respondent, 
 
     v. 
 
Curtis J. Keltgen,  
 
          Defendant-Third-Party Plaintiff- 
          Appellant-Cross-Respondent- 
          Petitioner, 
 
Paulet Keltgen,  
 
          Intervenor-Third- 
          Party Plaintiff, 
 
     v. 
 
Giles Smith,  
 
          Third-Party Defendant, 
 
L.E. Phillips Career Development Center,  
Inc.,  
 
          Third-Party Defendant- 
          Respondent-Cross-Respondent, 
 
Venture Insurance Company and Wausau  
Insurance Company,  
 
          Third-Party Defendants- 
          Respondents-Cross-Appellants. 
 
FILED 
 
APR 2, 2004 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
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REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.   
 
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PER CURIAM.   This is a review of a published decision 
of the court of appeals, St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. 
Keltgen, 2003 WI App 53, 260 Wis. 2d 523, 659 N.W.2d 906, that 
affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court for Eau Claire County, 
Thomas H. Barland, Judge.  The court is equally divided on the 
question of whether the decision of the court of appeals should 
be affirmed or reversed.  Justice Jon P. Wilcox, Justice N. 
Patrick Crooks, and Justice David T. Prosser would affirm; Chief 
Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and 
Justice Patience D. Roggensack would reverse.  Justice Diane S. 
Sykes did not participate.  
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed.  
 
 
 
No. 
02-1249   
 
 
 
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