It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence or an act not amounting to wanton wrong is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the... Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 4021903Full view - About this book
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 688 pages
...occurrence must be classed as an accident for which there can be no recovery. Within this rule, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an...foreseen' in the light of the attending circumstances." (4 RCL 1141.) If a carrier fails in his duty to a passenger he is responsible for the consequences... | |
| Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...legal knowledge, but of fact for the jury to determine, in view of the accompanying circumstances." "A finding that negligence, or an act not amounting...wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, is uot warranted unless it appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence... | |
| Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...injury? It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held, that in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an...act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate canse of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the... | |
| Law - 1916 - 502 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural...that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of attending circumstances." (1) Sedgr. El. Dam., p. 69. (2) 94 TJ. S. 469, 24 L. ed. 266. See also Empire... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 604 pages
...independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury? . . . It is generally held that in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to a wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 676 pages
...whether the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the proved negligence or wrongful act, and ought to have been foreseen. in the light of the attending circumstances. Where, however, there is no such conflict, and where but one deduction or inference under the evidence... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 618 pages
...resulting from accident, but was liable only for an injury occasioned from its negligence, and that ought to have been foreseen in. the light of the attending circumstances. Nor is the fact that the platform was a temporary affair a controlling one, or at all a dividing line,... | |
| Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...injury ? It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence or an act...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. These circumstances, in a case like the present, are the strength and direction of the wind, the combustible... | |
| Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...the injury ? It is admitted the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding, that negligence, or an...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. These circumstances, in a case like the present, are the strength and direction of the wind, the combustible... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...be considered an exposure to the other in fixing the rate of insurance, is inadmissible. Id. 14 In order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to a wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural... | |
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