Culpable negligence

Failure to exercise that degree of care rendered appropriate by the particular circumstances, and which a man of ordinary prudence in the same situation and with equni experience would not have omitted. Carter v. Lumbar Co., 129 N. C. 203, 39 S. El 828; Railroad Co., v. Newman, 36 Ark. 611; Woodman v. Nottingham, 49 N. H. 387, 6 Am. Rep. 526; Kimball v. Palmer, 80 Fed. 240, 25 C. C. A. 394; Railway Co. v. Brown, 44 Kan. 384, 24 Pac. 497 ; Railroad Co. v. Plaskett. 47 Kan. 107, 26 Pac. 401,

Defined under Negligence in Black's Law Dictionary.