Court Opinion

ID: 9535299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:47:47.018462+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:12.696169
License: Public Domain

STEINMETZ, J.
(concurring). I disagree with the majority's acceptance of the language in Poston v. U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 107 Wis. 2d 215, 320 N.W.2d 9 (Ct. App. 1982). (Petition for review denied, 107 Wis. 2d 752.) In that decision, the court of appeals found that the act of throwing gasoline on that plaintiff, in itself, was not substantially certain to result in bodily injury. I cannot agree with the statement as the majority does. The "sloshing" of a human being with such a volatile substance reasonably can be inferred to cause injury either by ignition or by contact itself on the skin, eyes and body.