Legal Opinion
Butler v. Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided July 13, 2006No. 2004AP1991PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPatience Drake Roggensack, J.
¶ 1. The circuit court granted summary judgment of dismissal to the defendants on the plaintiffs' negligence and nuisance claims.1 The court of appeals affirmed. Because we conclude that the plaintiffs' negligence and nuisance *405claims are precluded by public policy and were properly dismissed, we affirm the court of appeals, albeit on different grounds than those employed by the court of appeals.
I. BACKGROUND
¶ 2. This action arises out of a project to design and install a system to lower the water level (the Project) of Shell Lake (the Lake). The Lake is a bowl-shaped lake, covering…
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