[175]. Liability of abstracter to third party injured by mistake or omission in abstract of title: see Thomas v. Guarantee Title & Trust Co., 81 Ohio St. 432; Bremerton Development Co. v. Title Trust Co., 67 Wash. 268.
Liability of water company to injured citizen where it has failed to provide water for extinguishment of fires according to its contract with the municipality: see Sunderland, Liability of Water Companies for Fire Losses, 3 Mich. Law Rev. 442; Kales, Liability of Water Companies for Fire Losses—Another View, 3 Mich. Law Rev. 501; note in 19 Green Bag, 129–133.
[176]. Part of case omitted; also arguments.
On the subject of this section the student may read profitably, Bohlen, Contributory Negligence, 21 Harvard Law Rev. 233; Clark, Tort Liability for Negligence in Missouri, Bull. of Univ. of Mo. Law Series, No. 12, pp. 25–43.
[177]. 1 Q. B. 29, 36.
[178]. Chicago R. Co. v. Levy, 160 Ill. 385; Toledo R. Co. v. Brannagan, 75 Ind. 490; Cincinnati R. Co. v. Butler, 103 Ind. 31 (but changed in case of injuries to the person, Acts of 1899, p. 58, Burns’ Ann. St. § 362); Greenleaf v. Illinois R. Co., 29 Ia. 14 (but changed in case of actions against a common carrier, Suppl. to the Code, 1913, § 3593 a); Brown v. Illinois R. Co., 123 Ia. 239; Dickey v. Maine Tel. Co., 43 Me. 492; Planz v. Boston R. Co., 157 Mass. 377 (but changed by Acts of 1914, ch. 553); Mynning v. Detroit R. Co., 67 Mich. 677; Curran v. Warren Chemical Mfg. Co., 36 N. Y. 153; City v. Nix, 3 Okl. 136; Bovee v. Danville, 53 Vt. 183 Accord.
Contra, contributory negligence an affirmative defence: Inland Coasting Co. v. Tolson, 139 U. S. 551; Montgomery Gaslight Co. v. Montgomery R. Co., 86 Ala. 372; Texas R. Co. v. Orr, 46 Ark. 182; Atchison v. Wills, 21 App. D. C. 548; MacDougall v. Central R. Co., 63 Cal. 431; Moore v. Lanier, 52 Fla. 353; City v. Hudson, 88 Ga. 599; Hopkins v. Utah R. Co., 2 Idaho, 300; St. Louis R. Co. v. Weaver, 35 Kan. 412; Hocum v. Weitherick, 22 Minn. 152; Buesching v. St. Louis Gaslight Co., 73 Mo. 219; Nelson v. City, 16 Mont. 21; O’Brien v. Omaha Water Co., 83 Neb. 71; Valley v. Concord R. Co., 68 N. H. 546; New Jersey Exp. Co. v. Nichols, 33 N. J. Law 434; Jordan v. City, 112 N. C. 743; Carr v. Minneapolis R. Co., 16 N. D. 217; Grant v. Baker, 12 Or. 329; Beatty v. Gilmore, 16 Pa. St. 463; Carter v. Columbia R. Co., 19 S. C. 20; Houston R. Co. v. Cowser, 57 Tex. 293; Richmond Granite Co. v. Bailey, 92 Va. 554; Johnson v. Bellingham Imp. Co., 13 Wash. 455; Fowler v. Baltimore R. Co., 18 W. Va. 579; Hoth v. Peters, 55 Wis. 405.
[179]. As to contributory negligence as a bar to an action for damage caused in part by defendant’s failure to perform a duty imposed on him by statute, see Bishop, Commentaries on the Written Laws, §§ 117, 117 a, § 131, pars. 2, 3, § 134, pars. 3,4, § 139, par. 1; Kelley v. Killourey, 81 Conn. 320; Catlett v. Young, 143 Ill. 74; Shultz v. Griffith, 103 Ia. 150; Hussey v. King, 83 Me. 568; Wadsworth v. Marshall, 88 Me. 263; Schutt v. Adair, 99 Minn. 7; Quimby v. Woodbury, 63 N. H. 370; Kilpatrick v. Grand Trunk R. Co., 72 Vt. 263.
[180]. Only so much of the case is given as relates to a single point.
[181]. Remainder of opinion omitted.