Kluth v. General Cas. Co. of Wisconsin

This appeal from a nonfinal order dismissing defense motions for separate trials requires us to decide the scope of the permissive joinder statute, sec. 803.04, Stats., involving two different car accidents. The complaint stated that Cari E. McLean Kluth sustained soft tissue injuries in a car accident with Richard J. Crooks which were later aggravated by a second accident with Dolores R. Gramins. The narrow question is whether Kluth's actions against the two defendants arise out of "the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences" under the meaning of sec. 803.04.…