Court Opinion

ID: 9720808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:41:54.198877+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:21.447472
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The following opinion was filed April 3, 1962 :
Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). The special verdict returned by the jury made a comparison of the negligence of the two defendants and apportioned 70 per cent of the total aggregate negligence to defendant H. L. Green Company, and 30 per cent thereof to defendant Thomas G. Kliszcz. The judgment entered below provided for contribution between the defendants on an equal basis.
Defendant-appellant Kliszcz has filed a motion for rehearing in which he asks this court to apply the new rule on contribution, enunciated in Bielski v. Schulze, 16 Wis. (2d) 1, 114 N. W. (2d) 105, to those portions of the judgment which provide for contribution between the two defendants. This rule was made retroactive to all cases except those in three specified classifications. We deem that the instant case does not fall within any of these three excepted classifications.
Therefore, our prior mandate is modified to read as follows: “That part of the judgment which awards contribution to defendant H. L. Green Company is modified so as to provide that such defendant shall have judgment for contribution against defendant Kliszcz for all sums it shall pay to the plaintiff in excess of 70 per cent of the judgment *516bwith interest. That part of the judgment which awards contribution to defendant Kliszcz is modified so as to provide that such defendant shall have judgment for contribution against defendant H. L. Green Company for all sums it shall pay to the plaintiff in excess of 30 per cent of the judgment with interest. As so modified, the judgment is affirmed.”