WPI 12.07 Right to Assume Others Will Exercise Ordinary Care
6 WAPRAC WPI 12.07Washington Practice Series TMWashington Pattern Jury Instructions--Civil
6 Wash. Prac., Wash. Pattern Jury Instr. Civ. WPI 12.07 (7th ed.)
Washington Practice Series TM
Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Civil
April 2022 Update
Part II. Negligence—Risk—Misconduct—Proximate Cause
Chapter 12. Specific Factors Affecting Negligence and Contributory Negligence
WPI 12.07 Right to Assume Others Will Exercise Ordinary Care
Every person has the right to assume that others will exercise ordinary care [and comply with the law], and a person has a right to proceed on such assumption until he or she knows, or in the exercise of ordinary care should know, to the contrary.
NOTE ON USE
Use bracketed material as applicable.
If the bracketed phrase in this instruction is used, use WPI 60.03 (Violation of Statute, Ordinance, Administrative Rule, or Internal Governmental Policy—Evidence of Negligence) with this instruction.
For cases involving highways, use WPI 70.06 (Right to Assume Others Will Obey Law—Streets or Highways) instead of this instruction.
COMMENT
See Comment to WPI 70.06 (Right to Assume Others Will Obey Law—Streets or Highways).
The instruction was revised in 2010 to refer to “exercising” ordinary care, rather than “using” ordinary care, for consistency with other pattern instructions.
[Current as of September 2018.]
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