Brown County Courthouse was the site of pivotal Green Bay Packers business and legal events. The first stockholders meeting of the newly formed non-profit Green Bay Football Corporation was held there on Sept. 17, 1923, beginning four decades of important meetings at the courthouse. When the franchise was recognized in 1935 under the new name Green Bay Packers, Inc, that meeting was held there as well, and in 1950 shareholders met there to finalize plans for a third stock sale to save the franchise. It was also the setting for a stormy Nov. 30, 1949, board meeting in which directors debated Curly Lambeau's future for almost four hours before voting to extend his contract as coach, though no deal was completed and he resigned two months later to lead the Chicago Cardinals. The courthouse also housed the 1933 trial that nearly doomed the Packers, held in Judge Henry Graass' circuit courtroom after local fan Willard J. Bent was injured in a 1931 fall from the bleachers at City Stadium and sued the team; after a Feb. 28, 1933, verdict awarded him nearly $5,000, the asset-poor Packers entered receivership six months later. The courthouse opened in 1910.