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Wis JI-Civil 1075
Lookout: Guest
A guest (passenger) in an automobile has a duty to exercise ordinary care for his or her
own safety. This duty requires a guest to exercise ordinary care in maintaining a proper
lookout to warn the driver of any danger of which the guest has reason to believe the driver
may not be aware.
A guest (passenger), however, is not bound to maintain the same degree of diligence
in keeping a lookout as is required of the driver of the car, because a passenger does not have
the responsibility of operating and controlling the automobile. However, the fact that the
passenger is not in charge of operating the automobile does not relieve the passenger from all
duty to use care for his or her own safety. The passenger's duty with respect to lookout is to
exercise that care and caution which a person of ordinary intelligence, care, and prudence
would use while riding in the same passenger seat of the automobile as the plaintiff and
under the same or similar circumstances as exist in this case.
History
Wis JI-Civil 1075 (1996). ©1996, 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
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