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Wis JI-Civil 1070
Lookout: Failure to See Object in Plain Sight
A person who has the duty of keeping a lookout must look with such attention and
care as to see what is in plain sight. [If a person looks and does not see what is in plain sight,
the person did not keep a proper lookout, and the person is just as negligent as if the person
did not look at all.]
[The duty to look means to look efficiently. A person who looks and fails to see what
is in plain sight is in precisely the position he or she would be in if he or she did not look at
all.]
History
Wis JI-Civil 1070 (1992). ©1992, Regents, Univ. of Wis. Prepared by the Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions Committee of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference with the University of Wisconsin Law School; posted by the Wisconsin State Law Library with the University's permission.
Provenance
- Source
- wilawlibrary.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
34c4cbfc6d3e5e9ffe344efcd7a45693d8749fb7322e3679b7929639ee4e9f03
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