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WISNICKY v. FOX HILLS INN & COUNTRY CLUB

No. 89-1253.

163 Wis.2d 1023 (1991)

473 N.W.2d 523

Richard C. WISNICKY and Patricia Wisnicky, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FOX HILLS INN & COUNTRY CLUB, INC., a domestic corporation, General Accident Insurance Company, a foreign insurance corporation, the Wausau Insurance Company, a domestic insurance corporation, the Provident Insurance Company, a foreign insurance company, the Mutual of Omaha Corporation, a foreign insurance company, and the Manitowoc Company, a domestic corporation, Defendants-Respondents, The WISCONSIN LABORERS WELFARE FUND, a domestic corporation, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided July 3, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the brief of Wayne R. Peterson of Wayne R. Peterson, S.C. of Green Bay.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of John G. Shannon of O'Neill, Schimmel, Quirk & Caroll of Milwaukee.

Before Nettesheim, P.J., Brown and Scott, JJ.

BROWN, J.

In Griebler v. Doughboy Recreational, Inc., 160 Wis.2d 547, 466 N.W.2d 897 (1991), our supreme court held that where a duty of ordinary care is owed, the voluntary confrontation of an open and obvious danger means that the plaintiff's comparative negligence is greater than that of the defendant's as a matter of law. By this decision, we extend Griebler to safe place statute...

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