There is some great info in this thread minus the bickering. Some of the questions can be answered by reading through the FAQ's in my
New To OC in WI thread. It's a great starting point for information.
FYI, (Blacks Law Dictionary 4th Ed, PG 654)
EVENT: The consequence of anything, the issue,
conclusion, end; that in which an action, operation,
or series of operations, terminates. Geis v.
Geis, 125 Neb. 394, 250 N.W. 252; Brewer v. Ash
Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co., 223 Mo.App.
983, 25 S.W.2d 1086, 1088.
Anything that -happens or comes to pass as distinguished
from a thing that exists, Quinn v. Streeter, Sup., 175 Misc.
932, 24 N.Y.S.2d 916, 920. That which comes, arrives, or
happens, especially an incident which is important or
remarkable, Schulz v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 331
Mo. 616, 56 S.W.2d 126; the consequence, outcome, sequel,
or end effected by prior operation of medium or contributing
force or agency referred to as the "means" or "cause",
Toups v. Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co., D.C.La., 49 F.Supp. 348,
349; the culmination or end that means may have produced
or brought about. Whatcott v. Continental Casualty
Co., 85 Utah 406, 39 P.2d 733, 736; Sentinel Life Ins. Co.
v. Blackmer, C.C.A.Colo., 77 F.2d 347, 350.
An event may be injury itself rather than means producing
it. Juhl v. Hussman-Ligonier Co., Mo.App., 146
S.W.2d 106, 108. An event need not necessarily be a cause,
but may be and generally is a result. Guillod v. Kansas
City Power & Light Co., 224 Mo.App. 382, 18 S.W.2d 97,
100.
The word includes all of steps or connected Incidents
from first cause to final result, and may include both cause
and effect. Rinehart v. F. M. Stamper Co., 227 Mo.App.
653, 55 S.W.2d 729. The word is broad enough to include
an omission. Texas Cities Gas Co. v. Dickens, Tex.Civ.
App., 156 S.W.2d 1010, 1016.
Oneida Knitting Mills, 226 Wis. 662, 277 N.W. 653, 655.
In reference to judicial and quasi judicial proceedings,
"event" means the conclusion, end, or final
outcome or result of a litigation; as, in the
phrase "abide the event," speaking of costs or of
an agreement that one suit shall be governed by
the determination in another. Reeves v. McGregor,
9 Adol. & El. 576; Benjamin v. Ver Nooy, 168
N.Y. 578, 61 N.E. 971; Gordon v. Krellman, 217
App.Div. 477, 216 N.Y.S. 778, 779.
Where costs are awarded to an appellant to abide the
event, the "event" which determines whether the appellant
is entitled to an award of costs of appeal is his success
in obtaining a judgment on the merits on the retrial.
Commercial Sealeaf Co.. v. Purepac Corporation, 169 Misc.
133, 7 N.Y.S.2d 146, 148.
