Court Opinion

ID: 9688003
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:56:40.041352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:34.027272
License: Public Domain

Hallows, C. J.
(dissenting). I again urge, as I did in the dissent in Vincent v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1970), 47 Wis. 2d 120, 177 N. W. 2d 513, that this court show leadership and in the exercise of its inherent power reject in toto the common-law doctrine of contributory negligence and adopt the doctrine of pure or full comparison of negligence. Unless this advancement in the administration of the law is made, the doctrine of tort fault is in danger of being abrogated by statute and some form of no-fault liability substituted. If no-fault liability is adopted in automobile negligence cases, it should be done on its own merits as a superior social tool and not as a reaction to the inconsistencies and harshness of our present tort system.