Lots of talk nowadays about a reasonable person. What would a reasonable person do? It’s really the standard in Wisconsin, the reasonable person standard as it relates to ordinary care. What does that mean? Just simply what a reasonable person would do in similar circumstances, so as this relates to our world and your world.
Did you salt properly? Did you remove the snow properly? Were you driving properly? And all those properly relate to the reasonable person standard.
So when you’re dealing with how you should react, how you should maintain your property, how you should drive. Well, it all goes back to a reasonable person standard.
Are you being reasonable? and that’s a question for the jury ultimately.
But in these kind of cases now, you know what we are dealing with.
We’re always dealing with this imaginary, reasonable person standard.
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