Legal Opinion
Groshek v. TREWIN
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 24, 2010No. 2008AP787PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtN. Patrick Crooks, J.
¶ 1. This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals1 concerning rescission of a real estate contract on the grounds that the circumstances surrounding the transaction — an attorney's purchase of land from clients whose bankruptcy petition he handled — constituted a breach of fiduciary duty.
¶ 2. The two questions presented by this case are whether the circuit court's findings of fact concerning the transaction, if not clearly erroneous, and its conclusions of law satisfy the elements of a claim for breach of fiduciary duty, and whether the circuit court's award of punitive…
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