WI · jury_instructions
Wis JI-Civil 1585
Comparative Negligence: Plaintiff-Guest and Host-Defendant Negligent
You are to answer this question only if you have found both parties causally negligent.
If, by your previous answers, you are required to answer this question, you will answer the
subdivisions thereof, assigning to each party such percentage, or part of 100%, which you
find to a reasonable certainty is attributable to that party. You will determine how much and
to what extent each party is to blame for the injuries to (plaintiff) and whether the conduct of
one made a larger, equal, or smaller contribution than the other. You will fix the percentage
attributable to each party in proportion to the fault that the party contributed to cause
(plaintiff)'s injuries.
The burden of proof on these subdivisions is on the one who asserts the percentage of
causal negligence attributable to the other, and that party must satisfy you to a reasonable
certainty by the greater weight of the credible evidence what your answer should be.
History
Wis JI-Civil 1585 (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
263a848e2f7adc453420fd43d9e5c5b126113a522305150dffbf47517846ebee
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