Case Title: Daniel Lynch v. Carriage Ridge, LLC

Citation: 2004 WI 53

Docket Number: 2002AP000528

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2004-05-18T00:00:00Z

Document:
2004 WI 53 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
02-0528 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
Daniel Lynch and Judith O. Lynch,  
          Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross- 
          Respondents-Petitioners, 
 
     v. 
 
Carriage Ridge, LLC,  
          Defendant-Respondent, 
 
Thomas F. Bunbury and Ronald T. Restaino,  
          Defendants-Respondents-Cross- 
          Appellants-Cross Petitioners. 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
Reported at:  266 Wis. 2d 1059, 668 N.W.2d 562 
(Ct. App. 2003-Unpublished) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
May 18, 2004   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
April 29, 2004   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Dane   
 
JUDGE: 
David T. Flanagan   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: ROGGENSACK, J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
For the plaintiffs-appellants-cross-respondents-petitioners 
there were briefs by Gary A. Ahrens, Christine Cooney Mansour 
and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Milwaukee, and oral argument 
by Gary A. Ahrens. 
 
For 
the 
defendants-respondents-cross-appellants-cross 
petitioners there were briefs by Brian E. Butler, Michelle M. 
Affatati and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, and oral argument 
by Brian E. Butler. 
 
 
 
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For the defendant-respondent there was a brief by Terry E. 
Johnson, Maria D. Sanders and Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., 
Milwaukee. 
 
2004 WI 53 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  02-0528  
(L.C. No. 
00 CV 1957) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
Daniel Lynch and Judith O. Lynch,  
 
          Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross- 
          Respondents-Petitioners, 
 
     v. 
 
Carriage Ridge, LLC,  
 
          Defendant-Respondent, 
 
Thomas F. Bunbury and Ronald T. Restaino,  
 
 
          Defendants-Respondents-Cross- 
          Appellants-Cross Petitioners. 
 
FILED 
 
MAY 18, 2004 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.   
 
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PER CURIAM.   The court is equally divided on the 
question of whether the decision of the court of appeals, Lynch 
v. Carriage Ridge, unpublished per curiam op. (Wis. Ct. App. 
July 24, 2003), should be affirmed or reversed.  Chief Justice 
SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY, and Justice 
DAVID T. PROSSER would affirm; Justice JON P. WILCOX, Justice N. 
No. 
02-0528   
 
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PATRICK CROOKS, and Justice DIANE S. SYKES would reverse.  
Justice PATIENCE D. ROGGENSACK did not participate.   
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed.   
 
 
No. 
02-0528   
 
 
 
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