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Wis JI-Civil 8040
Duty of Owner of Place of Amusement: Common Law
Persons conducting places of amusement have a duty to use ordinary or reasonable
care to keep them safe for the public. Such person is not an insurer of the patrons. He or she
owes them only what under the particular circumstances is ordinary or reasonable care.
[This duty requires that the owners make such timely and periodic inspection of their
premises as would reveal existing defects therein or which may develop thereon and
seasonably repair all defects which might reasonably suggest the probability of danger or
injury to the invitees thereon. It is the duty of owners to repair all defects known by them to
exist, if any such defects did exist, and to repair defects that have existed a sufficient length
of time to give the owners constructive notice of their presence and which, in the exercise of
ordinary care, should have been discovered by them.]
History
Wis JI-Civil 8040 (1994). ©1994, 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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