wilful and wanton misconduct
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A deliberate and intentional wrong. Antonen v Swanson, 74 SD 1, 48 NW2d 161, 28 ALR2d I (phrase in statute respecting liability of motorist for injury to guest).
Under a statute which imposes liability on the driver of a car for injury to a guest-passenger only where occasioned by the driver's "wilful or wanton misconduct", such a disposition or mental state is shown by a person when, notwithstanding his conscious and timely knowledge of an approach to an unusual danger and of common probability of injury to others, he proceeds into the presence of danger with indifference to consequences and with absence of all care. Rodney v Staman, 37 1 Pa 1, 89 A2d 313, 32 ALR2d 976.
See wanton act.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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