SHORES CONDOMINIUM OWNER'S ASSOCIATION, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. MARK SCHLISE REVOCABLE TRUST DATED 1/14/91, BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ANTHONY SCHLISE, ANTHONY SCHLISE, RITA SCHLISE, THE COUNTY OF DOOR, CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, EMILY S. BEAVER, ALBERT H. BEAVER & BARBARA J. BEAVER LIVING TRUST, BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES ALBERT H. BEAVER & BARBARA J. BEAVER AND CHATEAU HUTTER CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFFS, BARBARA J. BEAVER, ROBERT L. WARTH, MARY A. WARTH, CHRISTOPHER J. CALLEN, KATHLYN M. CALLEN, FRANK L. HARMISON, LINDA M. HARMISON, RICHARD J. BOUQUET, KAREN A. BOUQUET, SUSAN K. VINEYARD, CHARLES L. BITHER, LEANNE M. BITHER, LES A. FRINAK, VICKI L. FRINAK, DIANE J. HUML TRUST, ALLAN WATSON, MARIBETH WATSON, VICKY A. CARMEN, SAMUEL J. CARMEN, GLORIA ECKMAN REVOCABLE TRUST, TRUSTEE OF ROBERT E. & MADELINE A. HARLAN REVOCABLE TRUST 98, THE LIDDLE 2000 REVOCABLE TRUST, A/K/A CLIFFORD LIDDLE AND MARY LIDDLE, SHIRLEY K. PICKERING, GAIL D. WARREN, MARGARET A. EVANS, A/K/A FORD TITUS, A/K/A MARGARET A. EVANS REVOCABLE TRUST 1994, DAVID R. EVANS, A/K/A FORD TITUS, A/K/A MARGARET A. EVANS REVOCABLE TRUST 1994, CHATTEAU VILLAS, A/K/A SANDRA E. RADTKE, TED R. HAAG, ANTHONY L. SCHLISE AND JOHN W. KOBUSSEN, JOHN HUTTER-EMILY STEWART FOUNDATION, LTD., FORD TITUS, RICHARD BYRNE, MARY BYRNE, DAVID EVANS, MARGARET EVANS, JOSEPH GALASKA, EDITH GALASKA, WILLIAM HAYES, MARY HAYES, LESTER JACKSON, LOUISE JACKSON, CARYLON KAGEN, DENNIS LEIGH, CONSTANCE LEIGH, GERALD POBLOCKI, EILEEN POBLOCKI, RUBIDELL RECREATION CORPORATION, AUGUST RYMUT, BONNIE RYMUT, DONALD SCHUENKE, JOYCE SCHUENKE, BURTON ZUCKER, CHARLOTTE ZUCKER, ASSOCIATED BANK GREEN BAY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, M&I BANK OF SHAWANO, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, N/K/A HOMESIDE LENDING, MIDWEST MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC., HORICON STATE BANK, BANC ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION, CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, NORTH SHORE BANK, M&I MARSHALL & ILSEY BANK, HUTTER NORTHERN TRUST, A/K/A JOHN A. HUTTER, JR., A/K/A MARION C. OWEN, UNKNOWNS, HEIRS, GRANTEES, DEVISEES, ETC., ROBERT E. HARLAN TRUSTEE, A/K/A ROBERT E. & MADELINE A. HARLAN REVOCABLE TRUST 1998, CLIFF LIDDLE TRUSTEE, SANDRA E. RADTKE AND TED R. HAAG, JOHN W. KOBUSSEN, ROBERTA TITUS, BAYLAKE BANK, LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE CORPORATION, RICHARD A. HOWARTH, HOMESIDE LENDING, DEFENDANTS, ALBERT H. BEAVER, DEFENDANT-THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. TOWNSHIP OF EGG HARBOR AND RICHARD A. HOWARTH, JR., THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS., 2007 WI App 230


Summary

A settlement was reached in a quiet title action. The former owner agreed to transfer most of its interest in property for a payment of $20,000. The settlement was approved, and the case was dismissed with prejudice. A dispute later arose, and a motion to enforce the stipulation was granted. The owner's motion to strike the briefs filed was denied. This appeal followed. In affirming, the appellate court determined that the trial court did not lack the power to hear the case merely because no motion for relief from judgment was filed under Wis. Stat. § 806.07(1). It did not govern situations where a party was seeking to enforce a judgment, order, or stipulation. In fact, it governed precisely the opposite situation. The appellate court noted that nothing in Phone Partners or § 806.07 placed any procedural hurdles on the inherent authority of courts to enforce judgments that they had entered. Finally, the owner failed to identify any erroneous exercise of discretion in the denial of his ...