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Ill UUUII uUIIVIUllUlloSPARTA, Wis. - Attorneys presented arguments before Circuit Judge Peter Pappas Friday afternoon in three cases.*, Alvin Woodmansee of La Prosse, attorney for Michael and Patrick Schur of Sparta, asked that the County Court jury verdict, following a two-day trial £ept. 29, 1971, be set aside.The jury found Patrick Schur guilty of battery and he was sentenced to 120 days in the county jail. Michael Schur was found guilty of aiding and abetting battery and sentenced to 60 davs.Soon after they were sentenced an appeal to Circuit Court was filed and fhey were released from jail pending the appeal.Attorneys are to submit briefs for the consideration of Judge Pappas before making a ruling.ruling.. Thomas Olson, La Crosse attorney, representing Michael Kuruzovich, 31, of R. 3, Sparta, asked that his client, who was convicted and sentenced to jail in County Court earlier in the week, fee released on bond pending the appeal of his case to Circuit Court.Judge Pappas allowed the release of Kuruzovich on a $250 signature bond.LAWYER TO LECTUREJohn Bosshard, Bangor and La Crosse lawyer, will lecture this week to a class in practical law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.Kuruzovich was found guilty of abusing his 10-year-old stepson, David Fayen, July 19,1972, causing the child to receive a fractured leg. Judge Rice sentenced him to six months in the county • jail under the Huber Law.Olson said Kuruzovich waswithout funds to continue to pay his defense attorney. Kuruzovich was called to testify and said he had borrowed $300 from a Sparta bank to pay Olson and Judge Pappas concluded that Olson had an obligation to continue in the defense-of his client. He said however, that the county would pay for the testimony transcript necessary for appealing the case to Circuit Court.William Skemp of La Crosse, representing the Dairyland Power Co. of La Crosse, argued that a complaint by the Cutler Cranberry Co., owned by Bruce Potter of Camp Douglas against Dairyland and the Oakdale Electric Cooperative, was improperly prepared. He said that separate causes of action should be instituted against the two defendant cooperatives.Potter’s attorneys claim intheir complaint, that electric power power was out for lVahours May 27, 1971, causing afailure of the sprinkling systemand the loss of berries from frost.The damage suit is charging $10,-‘836 in loss to the firm.The attorneys were asked tofile briefs within 10 days and the case was taken under advisement.
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La Crosse Sunday Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Mar 18, 1973
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