VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 25.010
Innkeeper’s Duty of Care
An innkeeper has [a duty to exercise due care and diligence in providing honest and competent
employees and to take reasonable precautions to protect guests and their property; an absolute duty of
care to protect guests when he knows or should know of a danger to them that might easily be [removed;
remedied; cured]; a duty of utmost care and diligence to protect guests against reasonably foreseeable
injury from the criminal conduct of a third party].
If an innkeeper fails to perform [this duty; these duties], then the innkeeper is negligent.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
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