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Wis JI-Civil 1591
Comparative Negligence: Guest Passively Negligent; Claims Against and Among Drivers; Apportionment from One Comparative Negligence Question
You are to answer this question if you have found more than one party 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 is attributable to that party in causing the injuries sustained by (plaintiff) and
the extent to which 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
each 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 by the greater
weight of the credible evidence, to a reasonable certainty, what your answer should be.
History
Wis JI-Civil 1591 (2015). ©2015, 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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