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Wis JI-Civil 8051
Duty of Hotelkeeper to Furnish Reasonably Safe Premises and Furniture for Guests
You are instructed that a hotelkeeper, though not an insurer, is required to exercise
reasonable care to provide his or her guests with safe premises and with furniture which
may be used in an ordinary and reasonable way without danger.
It is the further duty of a hotelkeeper to make all reasonable inspections so as to
guard against dangerous conditions, and such inspection must be frequent and thorough
enough to determine existing dangerous conditions.
You are further instructed that a hotelkeeper is not responsible for injuries caused
by a latent or hidden defect which would not have been revealed in the course of a
reasonable inspection. The duty of a hotelkeeper to furnish reasonably safe premises and
furniture for his or her guests does not require him or her to do the impossible or to
discover defects entirely latent in the premises or the furniture.
A “latent defect” is one which cannot be discovered by a reasonably careful
inspection.
History
Wis JI-Civil 8051 (2020). ©2020, 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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