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WI Stat § 895.048 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.048 - Recovery by auto or motorboat owner limited.

895.048  Recovery by auto or motorboat owner limited. The owner of a motor vehicle or motorboat which, while being operated by the spouse or minor child of such owner, is damaged as the result of an accident involving another vehicle or boat, may not recover from the owner or operator of such other vehicle or boat for such damages, if the negligence of such spouse or minor child exceeds that of the operator of such other vehicle or boat. In the event that it is judicially determined that a spouse or minor operator of the motor vehicle or motorboat is found to be guilty of less than 50 percent of the causal negligence involved in an accident, then in that event the owner of the motor vehicle or motorboat involved shall be entitled to recover in accordance with the contributory negligence principles as laid down in s. 895.045. For the purposes of recovery of damages by the owner under s. 895.048, and for this purpose only, the negligence of the spouse or minor operator shall be imputed to the owner.
WI Stat § 895.049 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.049 - Recovery by a person who fails to use protective headgear while operating certain motor vehicles.

895.049  Recovery by a person who fails to use protective headgear while operating certain motor vehicles. Notwithstanding s. 895.045, failure by a person who operates or is a passenger on a utility terrain vehicle, as defined in s. 23.33 (1) (ng), a motorcycle, as defined in s. 340.01 (32), an all-terrain vehicle, as defined in s. 340.01 (2g), or a snowmobile, as defined in s. 340.01 (58a), on or off a highway, to use protective headgear shall not reduce recovery for injuries or damages by the person or the person's legal representative in any civil action. This section does not apply to any person required to wear protective headgear under s. 23.33 (3g), 23.335 (8) (a) or (b), or 347.485 (1).History:  2003 a. 148; 2011 a. 208; 2015 a. 170.When this section applies to prohibit a reduction of damages, it necessarily also precludes a person's failure to wear a helmet from being considered a form of negligence. Hardy v. Hoefferle, 2007 WI App 264, 306 Wis. 2d 513, 743 N.W.2d 843, 06-2861.
WI Stat § 895.052 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.052 - Defamation by radio and television.

895.052  Defamation by radio and television. The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable in damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in, or as a part of, a visual or sound broadcast by a candidate for political office in those instances in which, under the acts of congress or the rules and regulations of the federal communications commission, the broadcasting station or network is prohibited from censoring the script of the broadcast.
WI Stat § 895.055 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.055 - Gaming contracts void.

895.055  Gaming contracts void. (1) All promises, agreements, notes, bills, bonds, or other contracts, mortgages, conveyances or other securities, where the whole or any part of the consideration of the promise, agreement, note, bill, bond, mortgage, conveyance or other security shall be for money or other valuable thing whatsoever won or lost, laid or staked, or betted at or upon any game of any kind or under any name whatsoever, or by any means, or upon any race, fight, sport or pastime, or any wager, or for the repayment of money or other thing of value, lent or advanced at the time and for the purpose, of any game, play, bet or wager, or of being laid, staked, betted or wagered thereon shall be void. (2) This section does not apply to contracts of insurance made in good faith for the security or indemnity of the party insured. (3) This section does not apply to any promise, agreement, note, bill, bond, mortgage, conveyance or other security that is permitted under chs. 562 to 569 or under state or federal laws relating to the conduct of gaming on Indian lands.History:  1993 a. 174; 1995 a. 225; 1997 a. 27.A Puerto Rican judgment based on a gambling debt was entitled to full faith and credit in Wisconsin. Conquistador Hotel Corp. v. Fortino, 99 Wis. 2d 16, 298 N.W.2d 236 (Ct. App. 1980).
WI Stat § 895.056 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.056 - Recovery of money wagered.

895.056  Recovery of money wagered. (1) In this section:(a) “Property" means any money, property or thing in action.(b) “Wagerer" means any person who, by playing at any game or by betting or wagering on any game, election, horse or other race, ball playing, cock fighting, fight, sport or pastime or on the issue or event thereof, or on any future contingent or unknown occurrence or result in respect to anything whatever, shall have put up, staked or deposited any property with any stakeholder or 3rd person, or shall have lost and delivered any property to any winner thereof. (2) (a) A wagerer may, within 3 months after putting up, staking or depositing property with a stakeholder or 3rd person, sue for and recover the property from the stakeholder or 3rd person whether the property has been lost or won or whether it has been delivered over by the stakeholder or 3rd person to the winner.(b) A wagerer may, within 6 months after any delivery by the wagerer or the stakeholder of the property put up, staked or deposited, sue for and recover the property from the winner thereof if the property has been delivered over to the winner. (3) If the wagerer does not sue for and recover the property, which was put up, staked or deposited, within the time specified under sub. (1), any other person may, in the person's behalf and the person's name, sue for and recover the property for the use and benefit of the wagerer's family or heirs, in case of the wagerer's death. The suit may be brought against and property recovered from any of the following:(a) The stakeholder or a 3rd person if the property is still held by the stakeholder or 3rd person, within 6 months after the putting up, staking or depositing of the property.(b) The winner of the property, within one year from the delivery of the property to the winner. (4) This section does not apply to any property that is permitted to be played, bet or wagered under chs. 562 to 569 or under state or federal laws relating to the conduct of gaming on Indian lands.History:  1993 a. 174, 486; 1995 a. 225; 1997 a. 27, 35.
WI Stat § 895.057 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.057 - Action against judicial officer for loss caused by misconduct.

895.057  Action against judicial officer for loss caused by misconduct. Any judicial officer who causes to be brought in a court over which the judicial officer presides any action or proceeding upon a claim placed in the judicial officer's hands as agent or attorney for collection shall be liable in a civil action to the person against whom such action or proceeding was brought for the full amount of damages and costs recovered on such claim.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 895.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.06 - Recovery of divisible personalty.

895.06  Recovery of divisible personalty. When personal property is divisible and owned by tenants in common and one tenant in common shall claim and hold possession of more than the tenant's share or proportion thereof his or her cotenant, after making a demand in writing, may sue for and recover the cotenant's share or the value thereof. The court may direct the jury, if necessary, in any such action to find what specific articles or what share or interest belongs to the respective parties, and the court shall enter up judgment in form for one or both of the parties against the other, according to the verdict.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 895.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.09 - Scrap metal or plastic bulk merchandise container theft; civil liability.

895.09  Scrap metal or plastic bulk merchandise container theft; civil liability. (1) Any owner of nonferrous scrap, a metal article, or a proprietary article, as those terms are defined in s. 134.405 (1), who incurs injury or loss as a result of a violation of s. 134.405 or s. 943.20 may bring a civil action against the person who committed the violation. (2) If the person who incurs the loss prevails against a person who committed the violation, the court shall grant the prevailing party all of the following:(a) Actual damages.(b) Any lost profits that are attributable to the violation and that were not taken into account in determining the amount of actual damages under par. (a).(c) Notwithstanding the limitations under s. 799.25 or 814.04, costs, disbursements, and reasonable attorney fees. (3) If the court finds that the violation was committed for the purpose of commercial advantage, the court may award punitive damages to the person who incurs the loss. (4) Any awards provided under sub. (2) (a) or (b) shall be reduced by the amount of any restitution collected for the same act under s. 800.093 or 973.20. (5) The person who incurs the loss has the burden of proving by the preponderance of the evidence that a violation of s. 134.405 or 943.20 occurred.History:  2007 a. 64; 2011 a. 194.
WI Stat § 895.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.10 - Tort actions in residential real estate transactions.

895.10  Tort actions in residential real estate transactions. (1) In this section, “residential real estate transaction" means a real estate transfer to which s. 709.01 (1) applies. (2) In addition to any other remedies available under law, a transferee in a residential real estate transaction may maintain an action in tort against the real estate transferor for fraud committed, or an intentional misrepresentation made, by the transferor in the residential real estate transaction. History:  2009 a. 4.
WI Stat § 895.28 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.28 - Remedies not merged.

895.28  Remedies not merged. When the violation of a right admits of both a civil and criminal remedy the right to prosecute the one is not merged in the other.
WI Stat § 895.33 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.33 - Limitation of surety's liability.

895.33  Limitation of surety's liability. Any person may limit the amount of liability as a surety upon any bond or other obligation required by law or ordered by any court, judge, municipal judge or public official for any purpose. The amount of the limited liability may be recited in the body of the bond or stated in the justification of the surety. In an action brought upon the bond, no judgment may be recovered against the surety for a sum larger than the amount of the liability stated, together with the proportional share of the costs of the action. In an action brought on the bond, a surety may deposit in court the amount of the liability, whereupon the surety shall be discharged and released from any further liability under the bond.History:  1979 c. 110 s. 60 (11); 1985 a. 332.
WI Stat § 895.34 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.34 - Renewal of sureties upon becoming insufficient and effects thereof.

895.34  Renewal of sureties upon becoming insufficient and effects thereof. If any bail bond, recognizance, undertaking or other bond or undertaking given in any civil or criminal action or proceeding, becomes at any time insufficient, the court or judge thereof, municipal judge or any magistrate before whom such action or proceeding is pending, may, upon notice, require the plaintiff or defendant to give a new bond, recognizance or undertaking. Every person becoming surety on any such new bond, recognizance or undertaking is liable from the time the original was given, the same as if he or she had been the original surety. If any person fails to comply with the order made in the case the adverse party is entitled to any order, judgment, remedy or process to which he or she would have been entitled had no bond, recognizance or undertaking been given at any time.History:  1977 c. 305.A precondition for this section to apply is that the bond must at one time have been sufficient. Bruer v. Town of Addison, 194 Wis. 2d 617, 534 N.W.2d 634 (Ct. App. 1995).
WI Stat § 895.345 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.345 - Justification of individual sureties.

895.345  Justification of individual sureties. (1) This section shall apply to any bond or undertaking in an amount of more than $1,000 whereon individuals are offered as sureties, which is authorized or required by any provision of the statutes to be given or furnished in or in connection with any civil action or proceeding in any court of record in this state, in connection with which bond or undertaking real property is offered as security. (2) Before any such bond or undertaking shall be approved, there shall be attached thereto and made a part of such bond or undertaking a statement under oath in duplicate by the surety that the surety is the sole owner of the property offered by the surety as security and containing the following additional information:(a) The full name and address of the surety.(b) That the surety is a resident of this state.(c) An accurate description by lot and block number, if part of a recorded and filed plat, or by metes and bounds of the real estate offered as security.(d) A statement that none of the properties offered constitute the homestead of the surety.(e) A statement of the total amount of the liens, unpaid taxes and other encumbrances against each property offered.(f) A statement as to the assessed value of each property offered, its market value and the value of the equity over and above all encumbrances, liens and unpaid taxes.(g) That the equity of the real property is equal to twice the penalty of the bond or undertaking. (3) This sworn statement shall be in addition to and notwithstanding other affidavits or statements of justification required or provided for elsewhere in the statutes in connection with such bonds and undertakings.History:  1993 a. 486; 1999 a. 96.Cross-reference:  This section does not apply to bonds of personal representatives. See s. 856.25.
WI Stat § 895.346 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.346 - Bail, deposit in lieu of bond.

895.346  Bail, deposit in lieu of bond. When any bond or undertaking is authorized in any civil or criminal action or proceeding, the would-be obligor may, in lieu thereof and with like legal effect, deposit with the proper court or officer cash or certified bank checks or U.S. bonds or bank certificates of deposit in an amount at least equal to the required security; and the receiver thereof shall give a receipt therefor and shall notify the payor bank of any deposits of bank certificates of deposit. Section 808.07 shall govern the procedure so far as applicable.History:  Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 784 (1975); 1977 c. 187 s. 135.This section applies to all bonds, not just bail bonds. Aiello v. Village of Pleasant Prairie, 206 Wis. 2d 68, 556 N.W.2d 697 (1996), 95-1352.
WI Stat § 895.36 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.36 - Process against corporation or limited liability company officer.

895.36  Process against corporation or limited liability company officer. No process against private property shall issue in an action or upon a judgment against a public corporation or limited liability company or an officer or manager in his or her official capacity, when the liability, if any, is that of the corporation or limited liability company nor shall any person be liable as garnishee of such public corporation or limited liability company.History:  1993 a. 112; 2005 a. 155.
WI Stat § 895.37 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.37 - Abrogation of defenses in employee personal injury actions.

895.37  Abrogation of defenses in employee personal injury actions. (1) In any action to recover damages for a personal injury sustained within this state by an employee while engaged in the line of the employee's duty as an employee, or for death resulting from personal injury so sustained, in which recovery is sought upon the ground of want of ordinary care of the employer, or of any officer, agent, or servant of the employer, it shall not be a defense:(a) That the employee either expressly or impliedly assumed the risk of the hazard complained of.(b) When such employer has at the time of the injury in a common employment 3 or more employees, that the injury or death was caused in whole or in part by the want of ordinary care of a fellow servant.(c) When such employer has at the time of the injury in a common employment 3 or more employees, that the injury or death was caused in whole or in part by the want of ordinary care of the injured employee, where such want of ordinary care was not willful. (2) Any employer who has elected to pay compensation as provided in ch. 102 shall not be subject to this section. (3) Subsection (1) (a), (b) and (c) shall not apply to farm labor, except such farm labor as is subject to ch. 102. (4) No contract, rule, or regulation, shall exempt the employer from this section.History:  1993 a. 486; 2005 a. 155.The fellow servant defense is not available to a farm employer of a child employed in violation of child labor laws. Tisdale v. Hasslinger, 79 Wis. 2d 194, 255 N.W.2d 314.
WI Stat § 895.375 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.375 - Abrogation of defense that contract was champertous.

895.375  Abrogation of defense that contract was champertous. No action, special proceeding, cross complaint or counterclaim in any court shall be dismissed on the ground that a party to the action is a party to a contract savoring of champerty or maintenance unless the contract is the basis of the claim pleaded.
WI Stat § 895.42 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.42 - Deposit of undistributed money and property by personal representatives and others.

895.42  Deposit of undistributed money and property by personal representatives and others. (1) (a) In this subsection, “trust company" means any trust company or any state or national bank in this state that is authorized to exercise trust powers.(b) If in any proceeding in any court of record it is determined that moneys or other personal property in the custody of or under the control of any personal representative, trustee, receiver, or other officer of the court, belongs to a natural person if the person is alive, or to an artificial person if it is in existence and entitled to receive, and otherwise to some other person, and the court finds any of the following, the court may direct the officer having custody or control of the money or property to deposit the money or property with any trust company:1. That there is not sufficient evidence showing that the natural person first entitled to take is alive, or that the artificial person is in existence and entitled to receive.2. That the money or other personal property, including any legacy or share of intestate property, cannot be delivered to the person entitled to the money or property because the person is a member of the military or naval forces of the United States or any of its allies or is engaged in any of the armed forces abroad or with the American Red Cross society or other body or similar business.(c) Any officer depositing money or property with a trust company under par. (b), shall take the trust company's receipt for the deposit. The receipt shall, to the extent of the deposit, constitute a complete discharge of the officer in any accounting made by the officer in the proceeding. (2) In case such deposit is directed to be made, the court shall require the trust company or bank in which said deposit is ordered to be made, as a condition of the receipt thereof, to accept and handle, manage and invest the same as trust funds to the same extent as if it had received the same as a testamentary trust, unless the court shall expressly otherwise direct, except that the reports shall be made to the court of its appointment. (3) No distribution of the moneys or personal property so deposited shall be made by the depository as such trustee or otherwise without an order of the court on notice as prescribed by s. 879.03, and the jurisdiction of the court in the proceeding will be continued to determine, at any time at the instance of any party interested, the ownership of said funds, and to order their distribution.History:  1973 c. 90; 1993 a. 486; 2001 a. 102; 2005 a. 149.
WI Stat § 895.43 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.43 - Intentional killing by beneficiary of contract.

895.43  Intentional killing by beneficiary of contract. The rights of a beneficiary of a contractual arrangement who kills the principal obligee under the contractual arrangement are governed by s. 854.14.History:  1981 c. 228; 1987 a. 222; 1997 a. 188.
WI Stat § 895.435 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 895 - Damages, liability, and miscellaneous provisions regarding actions in courts.|895.435 - Intentional killing by beneficiary of certain death benefits.

895.435  Intentional killing by beneficiary of certain death benefits. The rights of a beneficiary to receive benefits payable by reason of the death of an individual killed by the beneficiary are governed by s. 854.14.History:  1981 c. 228; 1987 a. 222; 1997 a. 188.