Hooper v. Glenn

The defendant reserved an exception to the refusal of the trial judge to permit him to amend his answer so as to set up a new plea of contributory negligence in these words, namely: “The defendant, Robert H. Glenn denies that he had used or was under the influence of intoxicants at the time of the accident, but avers that if he was intoxicated and if he and the plaintiff, D. W. Hooper, had been drinking intoxicants together, and the use of intoxicants by defendant Glenn was one of the proximate causes of the accident resulting in injuries to the plaintiff, then the plaintiff himself was…