Corporation of City of Glasgow v Robertson or Cameron    Practice – Third party notice – Discretion of court to allow – Effect of notice to involve
plaintiff in costly litigation, which may otherwise be avoided.
A passenger in a private motor car belonging to and driven by her husband sustained injuries
as a result of a collision with a Glasgow Corporation tramway car. She sued the corporation
for damages on the ground of negligence on the part of a servant of the corporation. In their
pleadings the corporation averred that the husband was solely to blame for the accident. After
the close of the pleadings the corporation, in terms of the Rules of the Court of Session, 1934,
proposed a counter-issue of negligence on the part of the husband and asked for an order for
service of a third party notice upon him. The court held that the corporation had not
relevantly pleaded a right of contribution against