Case ID: wis-2d_57/html/0755-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Riemer, Appellant, v. Crayton and others, Defendants: City of Milwaukee, Respondent.
    
      No. 223.
    
    
      Submitted January 5, 1973.
    
    Decided January 30, 1973.
    
    For the appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Charlton, Yanisch, Greco & Roffa, attorneys, and Earl A. Charlton and Carlton Roffa of counsel, all of Milwaukee.
    For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of C. Donald Straub Law Office, attorneys, and C. D. Straub of counsel, all of Milwaukee.
   Per Curiam.

Not every violation of a statute is negligence per se. Only where the statute is a “safety statute,” designed to protect a class of persons from a particular type of harm, is a violation negligence per se, and then only when the violation results in that type of harm to someone in the protected class. Meihost v. Meihost (1966), 29 Wis. 2d 537, 139 N. W. 2d 116. We agree with the trial judge that the compulsory school attendance laws are not safety statutes.

The order is affirmed.