LEMMEN v. SERVAIS

No. 273.

39 Wis.2d 75 (1968)

158 N.W.2d 841

LEMMEN, by Guardian ad litem, and another, Plaintiffs, v. SERVAIS and another, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs and Appellants: LEMMEN and wife, Third-Party Defendants and Respondents: FRIEDRICHSMEIER and another, Third-Party Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 7, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants (third-party plaintiffs) there was a brief by Lontkowski & Lontkowski of Green Bay, and oral argument by Edward C. Lontkowski.

For the respondents (third-party defendants) there was a brief by Cornelisen, Denissen, Kranzush, Kuehn & Condon, attorneys, and David J. Condon of counsel, all of Green Bay, and oral argument by David J. Condon.


CONNOR T. HANSEN, J.

The issue presented is whether the third-party complaint alleging the parents to be causally negligent in failing to properly instruct a six-year-old child in how to leave a school bus and cross a highway states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action for contribution to the child's claim for damages.

In Goller v. White (1963), 20 Wis.2d 402, 413, 122 N.W.2d 193, this court abrogated...

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