State Farm Fire and Casualty Company v. Hague Quality Water, International

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2014 WI 5 SUPREME COURT CASE NO.: COMPLETE TITLE: OF WISCONSIN 2012AP392 State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hague Quality Water, International and The Cincinnati Insurance Company, Defendants-Respondents-Petitioners. REVIEW OF A DECISION OF Reported at 345 Wis. 2d (Ct. App. 2013 PDC No: 2013 OPINION FILED: SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: ORAL ARGUMENT: THE COURT OF APPEALS 741, 826 N.W.2d 412 Published) WI App 10 January 28, 2014 January 14, 2014 SOURCE OF APPEAL: COURT: COUNTY: JUDGE: Circuit Sheboygan James J. Bolgert JUSTICES: CONCURRED: DISSENTED: NOT PARTICIPATING: PROSSER, J., did not participate. ATTORNEYS: For the defendants-respondents-petitioners, there were briefs by Jason P. Gehring and Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Jason P. Gehring. For the plaintiff-appellant, there was a brief by Charles W. Kramer and Monte E. Weiss and Weiss Law Office, S.C., Mequon, and oral argument by Charles W. Kramer. 2014 WI 5 NOTICE This opinion is subject to further editing and modification. The final version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports. No. 2012AP392 (L.C. No. 2010CV1276) STATE OF WISCONSIN : IN SUPREME COURT State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, Plaintiff-Appellant, FILED v. Hague Quality Water, International and The Cincinnati JAN 28, 2014 Insurance Company, Diane M. Fremgen Clerk of Supreme Court Defendants-Respondents-Petitioners. REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals. ¶1 PER CURIAM. Affirmed. The court is equally divided on the question of whether the decision of the court of appeals, State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Hague Quality Water, Int'l, 2013 WI App 10, 345 Wis. 2d 741, 826 N.W.2d Sheboygan County Circuit Court,1 412, which reversed the should be affirmed or reversed. Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, 1 The Honorable James J. Bolgert, presiding. No. and Justice N. Patrick Crooks would affirm. Drake Roggensack, Justice Annette Michael J. Gableman would reverse. K. 2012AP392 Justice Patience Ziegler, and Justice Justice David T. Prosser did not participate. ¶2 Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is affirmed. 2 No. 1 2012AP392

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