Contracts – employment — summary judgment

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals

Civil

Contracts – employment — summary judgment

Where a former employee failed to present any evidence that he was responsible for is employer obtaining a contract, summary judgment was properly granted to the employer on his compensation claim.

“Chapman has not presented any summary-judgment evidence that the Environmental Power Corporation California deal was put together or even completed ‘[p]rimarily through [his] efforts’ as alleged in his complaint and in his proposed amended complaint. Rather, he argues that, contrary to the circuit court’s conclusion, he was entitled to have what his complaint calls his ‘earned incentive compensation’ under the contract (as set out in the December 27, 2007, letter) based on all the revenue brought in by the energy group, irrespective of whether he was a procuring cause. In our view, the face of the December 27, 2007, letter defeats this unreasonable contention.”

Affirmed.

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2013AP282 Chapman v. B.C. Ziegler & Co.

Dist. I, Milwaukee County, Martens, J., Fine, J.

Attorneys: For Appellant: Duquette, James B., Elkhorn; Ginzkey, James P., Bloomington, Ill.; For Respondent: Williams-Killackey, Judith, Milwaukee; Hackbarth, Jonathan, Milwaukee