Contributory negligence

Contributory negligence, when set up as a defense to an action for injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant's negligence, means any want of ordinary care on the part of the person injured, (or on the part of another whose negligence is imputable to him,) which combined and concurred with the defendant's negligence, and contributed to the injury as a proximate cause thereof, and as an element without which the injury would not have occurred.

Railroad Co., v. Young, 153 Ind. 163, 54 N E. 791; Deli v. Glass Co., 169 Pa. 549, 32 Atl. 6Ol; Barton v. Railroad Co., 52 Mo. 253, 14 Am. Rep. 418; Plant Inv. Co v. Cook, 74 Fed. 503 , 20 C. C. A. 625; McLaughlin v. Electric Light Co... 100 Ky. 173, 37 S. W. 851, 34 L. R. A. 812; Riley v. Railway Co.., 27 W. Va. 164,