Maichle v. Jonovic

The incident in question occurred on November 18, 1970. At that time Scott was eight years of age and Steve was nine years of age. They attended the same school in New Berlin, Wisconsin, and had participated together in Cub Scouts. The two families lived diagonally across the street from each other. Until about a month before the incident, the two boys were friends.

Scott testified that he and another older boy, Jeff Grundmann, had an argument about four weeks before the incident in question. Jeff started to pick on Scott and persuaded Steve to pick on Scott also. According to Scott, for the…