Slight negligence
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Slight negligence is not slight want of ordinary care contributing to the injury, which would defeat an action for negligence. Slight negligence is defined to be only an absence of that degree of care and vigilance which persons of extraordinary prudence and foresight are accustomed to use.
Briggs. v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132 , 11 Sup. Ct. 92A, 35 It. Bid. 662; French v. Buffalo, etc., R. Co., 48 N. Y. 108; Litchfield v. White, 7 N. Y. 488, 57 Am. Dec. 534; Griffin v. Willow, 43 Wis. 512.