Carter v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 19 Wash. 597
• 53 P. 1102
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 430

Syllabus

<p>ACTION FOR PERSONAL INJURIES — PLEADING AND PROOF — CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE — EVIDENCE.</p> <p>In an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence, where evidence of plaintiff’s intoxication at the time of the injury has been admitted, the plaintiff, cannot, in order to rebut such evidence, prove his general reputation for sobriety.</p> <p>In a negligence case, in which defendant pleads a general denial, and also plaintiff’s contributory negligence, and there is no motion to make the answer more specific, evidence of plaintiff’s intoxication, as the cause of the injury received by him, is admissible.</p>