By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//January 21, 2015//
Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Civil
Contracts – statute of limitations
APPEAL and CROSS-APPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Walworth County: JAMES L. CARLSON, Judge. Affirmed in part; reversed in part and cause remanded.
This lawsuit relates to a dispute between two small businesses about the purchase and sale of a periodical publication. The underlying contract was between two corporations, Flyer Publications, Inc. (the seller) and Richardson Ventures, Ltd. (the buyer), but the lawsuit was commenced by Jeffrey Parnau, the owner of Richardson Ventures, against David Weiman, the owner of Flyer Publications, Inc. Eventually Parnau filed amended pleadings naming the proper corporate parties, but not before the statute of limitations on the corporation’s contract claims expired.
DISTRICT II; Walworth County; JAMES L. CARLSON; Brown, C.J., Reilly and Gundrum, JJ.
2013AP001795 Jeffrey Parnau v. David Weiman