# Martindale v. Ripp

> Wisconsin Supreme Court · July 12, 2001 · 246 Wis. 2d 67

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9884037

## Case

- **Full name:** Bruce Martindale, Plaintiff-Appellant-Petitioner, v. Bruce A. Ripp, City of Beloit, Pekin Insurance Company, and Cities and Villages Mutual Insurance Company, Defendants-Respondents
- **Court:** Wisconsin Supreme Court
- **Decided:** July 12, 2001
- **Citations:** 246 Wis. 2d 67; 629 N.W.2d 698; 2001 WI 113; 2001 Wisc. LEXIS 452
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Abrahamson
- **Judges:** Bruce Martindale Seeks Review of an Unpublished Decision of the Court of Appeals That Affirmed Certain Rulings to Exclude Evidence by the Circuit Court for Rock County
- **Cited by:** 172 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a plaintiff had set an adequate foundation for expert testimony, the expert was professionally competent to testify in the area, and the expert testimony met a reasonable degree of medical probability, despite circuit court findings with factual citations to the c…
- stating that an erroneous exercise of discretion only leads to a new trial if there is a reasonable possibility that the error contributed to the outcome

## Opinion text

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, CHIEF JUSTICE
¶ 95. (concurring). I join the majority opinion. I wrote a concurrence on the issue of harmless error in In re the Termination of Parental Rights to Jay ton S.: Evelyn C.R. v. Tykila S., 2001 WI 110, ¶¶ 37-42 , 246 Wis. 2d 1 , 629 N.W.2d 768 (Abrahamson, C.J., concurring). My views on harmless error expressed in that concurrence apply to the present case as well. Rather than repeat the concurrence verbatim in the present case, I refer the reader to the Evelyn C.R. case.

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