Witness testimony continued in Lyon County District Court Thursday, as a civil trial against the owners of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park in Marshall reached its third day.

MARSHALL — Witness testimony continued Thursday, in the lawsuit against the owners of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park in Marshall. Jurors heard testimony from several different people, including a Broadmoor Valley employee, a former resident of the mobile home park, and two area residents who helped Broadmoor Valley tenants organize a residents’ association in 2018.

The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office sued Broadmoor Valley owners Schierholz and Associates in 2021. Among the allegations in the lawsuit was that the owners failed to maintain the park to state standards.

Trial proceedings Thursday morning started out with a cross-examination of Jason Kloss, the environmental health manager at Southwest Health and Human Services. On Wednesday, Kloss had answered questions about inspection reports at Broadmoor valley showing issues like standing water and potholes on streets. Attorneys representing Schierholz and Associates showed Kloss and the jury additional inspection reports made between 2022 and 2024, which did not include findings of problems with the roads.

Kloss also confirmed that, in a separate lawsuit brought against park owners by the residents’ association, he had testified that the streets at Broadmoor Valley permitted travel.

Other witnesses who testified Thursday included Bradley Cauwels, who answered questions about road grading and operations at Broadmoor Valley, and former resident Kristina Strandmark. Strandmark testified that she rented, and later owned a home, at Broadmoor Valley between 2014 and 2019. Strandmark said her home’s porch was damaged by a falling tree branch that she had previously asked Broadmoor Valley management to trim. She said she bore the cost of removing the porch. There were also times that the park’s streets were not plowed after snowstorms, she said.

Jurors also heard testimony from Shawn Butler and Misty Butler, two area residents who helped organize Residents United, a Broadmoor Valley residents’ association. In Shawn Butler’s testimony, he was asked about a park cleanup event that Residents United held in 2018. Butler testified that after the cleanup event, the residents’ association held a potluck at two vacant lots next to a resident’s home in Broadmoor Valley. Butler said that resident later received a bill from Broadmoor Valley for rent and deposit for use of the two lots. He said attendance at residents’ association meetings dropped after that.

Attorneys for the Broadmoor Valley owners asked Shawn Butler about how well he knew Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and showed the jury a video clip of Butler speaking at a local political campaign event. Butler testified that he was asked to introduce Ellison at the event, and only had the Broadmoor Valley case to talk about.

In part of her testimony, Misty Butler answered questions about helping to form the Residents United group together with a resident of Broadmoor Valley in 2018. She also testified about events she helped the group organize, like a “Walk for Dignity” at the park, and starting a legal defense fundraiser.

In other parts of Misty Butler’s testimony, attorneys went over communications between Butler and people including Marshall city employees, members of the Attorney General’s Office, and the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, which has helped mobile home park residents form cooperatives and purchase their parks.

Attorneys asked Butler if Broadmoor Valley residents hoped the Attorney General’s lawsuit could be used to force Paul Schierholz to sell the park. She testified that the Attorney General’s Office “made it clear” that was not something that would happen.

More witnesses in the trial will be called Friday, District Court Judge Tricia Zimmer said.