References: [1846] EngR 506, (1846) 2 Car & K 230, (1846) 175 ER 95
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If each of two persons be driving a cart at a dangerous and furious rate, and they be inciting: each other to drive at a dangerous and furious rate along a turnpike road, and one of the carts run over a man and kill him, each of the two persons is guilty of manslaughter, and it is no ground of defence, that the death was partly caused by the negligence of the deceased himself, or that he was either deaf or drunk at the time Generally, it may be laid down, that, where one by his negllgence has contributed to the death of another, he is guilty of manslaughter.