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13-829. Workmanlike manner.

            Where a person contracts to perform work of a particular skill, [he] [she] promises to exercise the judgment and to display the quality of workmanship which is standard to that field of work.

 

USE NOTE

            This instruction should be given when a question of fact arises as to whether a person failed to exercise the judgment or to produce the product which could be expected from any person working in that field.  Situations where the parties have contracted for more or less than the standard in the industry can be argued to the jury without further instruction or may give rise to an instruction on waiver.

[Adopted, effective November 1, 1991.]

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