Title: Douglas-Hanson Company, Inc. v. BF Goodrich Company
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 1998AP001737
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: March 10, 2000

2000 WI 22 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
Case No.: 
98-1737 
 
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
Douglas-Hanson Company, Inc.,  
 
Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
v. 
BF Goodrich Company,  
 
Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.  
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
Reported at:  229 Wis. 2d 132, 598 N.W.2d 262 
 
 
(Ct. App. 1999-Published) 
 
 
Opinion Filed: 
March 10, 2000 
Submitted on Briefs: 
      
Oral Argument: 
February 29, 2000 
 
 
Source of APPEAL 
 
COURT: 
Circuit 
 
COUNTY: 
St. Croix 
 
JUDGE: 
Scott R. Needham 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
Concurred: 
      
 
Dissented: 
      
 
Not Participating: WILCOX, J. 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were 
briefs by Eric J. Magnuson, John B. Lunseth II and Rider, 
Bennett, Egan & Arundel, LLP, Minneapolis, and Daniel W. 
Hildebrand and DeWitt Ross & Stevens, Madison, and oral argument 
by Daniel W. Hildebrand. 
 
 
For the plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by 
Michael R. Gray, Scott S. Payzant and Mackall, Crounse & Moore, 
PLC, Minneapolis, and oral argument by Scott S. Payzant. 
 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further editing and 
modification.  The final version will appear 
in the bound volume of the official reports. 
 
 
No.  98-1737 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN                    :  
  IN SUPREME COURT 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
 
 
 
Douglas-Hanson Company, Inc.,  
 
          Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
     v. 
 
BF Goodrich Company,  
 
          Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner. 
 
 
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 published decision of the court of 
appeals, Douglas-Hanson Co., Inc. v. BF Goodrich Co., No. 98-
1737 (June 29, 1999), should be affirmed or reversed.  Chief 
Justice SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY, and 
Justice DAVID T. PROSSER would affirm; Justice WILLIAM A. 
BABLITCH, Justice N. PATRICK CROOKS, and Justice DIANE S. SYKES 
would reverse.  Justice JON P. WILCOX did not participate.   
 
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed. 
 
FILED 
 
MAR 10, 2000 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Acting Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
No. 
  
 
 
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