By: Derek Hawkins//October 18, 2017//
WI Supreme Court
Case Name: Mark Halbman v. Mitchell J. Barrock
Case No.: 2017 WI 91
Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence
The basic issue for this court is whether Halbman failed to present the requisite evidence to support a damage award in his favor. The court of appeals examined the record and concluded that Halbman, the plaintiff, failed to carry his burden of proving damages and that the circuit court did not err in dismissing the case at the close of Halbman’s case-in-chief.
The review should be dismissed as improvidently granted because the issues for which we took the case do not present any real or significant questions of federal or state law or lead to developing, clarifying, or harmonizing the law. Cf. Wis. Stat. § 809.62(1r) (Criteria for granting review). Further review by this court and publication of an opinion by this court would not serve any purpose.
Dismissed
Concur: ABRAHAMSON, J. concurs, joined by A.W. BRADLEY, J.
Dissent: