HSBC Realty Credit Corp. v. City of Glendale

¶ 1. John Barrett, Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court (hereafter, the "Clerk") appeals from a trial court order directing him to transfer a condemnation award (the "Award") to a money market account at a private bank where it will earn interest for the benefit of the interested persons having a claim on the Award. The Clerk argues that the trial court lacked authority to order that the Award be transferred from his control and deprive Milwaukee County's general fund of the interest it could earn on the Award. In the alternative, the Clerk argues that if the trial court had authority to…