No.   94-1382

 

STATE OF WISCONSIN IN COURT OF APPEALS

  DISTRICT I           

                                                                                                                        

MARINO CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.,

 

                                                            Plaintiff-Appellant,

 

                        v.                                                                                 ERRATA SHEET

 

CITY OF MILWAUKEE,

BOARD OF HARBOR COMMISSIONERS

OF THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE

AND KENNETH J. SZALLAI,

 

                                                            Defendants-Respondents.

                                                                                                                      

 

 

Marilyn L. Graves

Clerk of Court of Appeals

231 East, State Capitol

Madison, WI   53702

Peg Carlson

Chief Staff Attorney

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703-3330

 

Jennifer Krapf

Administrative Assistant

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703-3330

Court of Appeals, District II

2727 N. Grandview Blvd.

Suite 300

Waukesha, WI   53188-1672

 

Court of Appeals, District III

740 Third Street

Wausau, WI   54403-5784

Court of Appeals, District IV

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703-3330

 

Hon. Michael D. Guolee

901 N. 9th Str., Rm. 503

Milwaukee, WI  53233

Stuart S. Mukamal

Office of City Attorney

200 E. Wells Str., Rm. 800

Milwaukee, WI  53202

 

Burton A. Strnad

Burton A. Strnad, S.C.

735 N. Water Str., Rm. 928

Milwaukee, WI  53202

 

 

 

                        PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the attached page 2 is to be substituted for page 2 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on October 17, 1995.

                        Dated this 25th day of December, 2006.

Milwaukee and the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Milwaukee.  The trial court dismissed the amended complaint after it concluded that libel is an intentional tort and therefore the City and the Board of Harbor Commissioners as governmental entities were immune from liability under § 893.80(4), Stats.[1]  We conclude that Marino Construction's seven causes of action for libel as pleaded in its amended complaint are premised upon alleged intentional conduct on the part of the City and its agents, and accordingly the trial court properly applied the doctrine of governmental immunity in dismissing the amended complaint against the City and the Board of Harbor Commissioners.  We affirm.

                        On August 2, 1991, the City and the Board of Harbor Commissioners entered into a contract with Marino Construction to build portions of the Port of Milwaukee Headquarters Building.  The company “constructed” the building.


     [1]  Section 893.80(4) Stats., provides:

 

   (4) No suit may be brought against any volunteer fire company organized under ch. 213, political corporation, governmental subdivision or any agency thereof for the intentional torts of its officers, officials, agents or employes nor may any suit be brought against such corporation, subdivision or agency or volunteer fire company or against its officers, officials, agents or employes for acts done in the exercise of legislative, quasi‑legislative, judicial or quasi‑judicial functions.