 In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 3901905Full view - About this book
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...353, and Railroad Co. v. Hope, 80 Pa. St. 373, laid down the rule as to proximate cause as follows: " In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." Applying this rule to the facts of the present case, can it be said that the injury of Mrs. Trich was... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 718 pages
...negligent act or omission should foresee the precise form of the injury, to constitute proximate cause the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence and be of such a character as an ordinarily prudent person ought to have foreseen might probably occur... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 556 pages
...373, laid down the rule as to proximate canse as follows : "In determining what is proximate canse, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural...foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his sot." Applying this rule to the facts of the present case, can it be said that the injury of Mrs. Trich... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...accident was not the proximate cause. The rule ou this subject is as follows: "In dctermining what is the proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury...circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Hailwuy Co. v. Taylor, 104 Penn. St. 306; Township... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...sparks or burning coals from defendants' locomotive. The rule for determining what its proxinoate cause Is, that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the act in the first instance, and that it might and ought to have been foreseen under the circumstances.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 642 pages
...doctrine as to remote and proximate cause as held in Pennsylvania has been thus stated in many cases: "In determining what is proximate cause the true rule...under the surrounding circumstances of the case might have been foreseen by the wrong doer as likely to flow from his act": Hoag v. RR Co., 85 Pa. 293; Pass.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 634 pages
...to correctly ascertain the proximate cause of an accident. The general rule applicable to such cases is, " That the injury must be the natural and probable...negligence : such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstance of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 644 pages
...not the natural and probable consequence of the breaking of this guy rope lying upon the track — such a consequence, as, under the surrounding circumstances...case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the agents of the railroad company as likely to flow from their act. Even if the employees of the company... | |
 | Insurance law - 1876 - 972 pages
...of the cause of the injury. The rule for determining what is a proximate cause may be stated thus : that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, and that this consequence might and ought to have been foreseen under the surrounding circumstances.... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...probable, consequence of the negligence of defendants. The rule for determining what is proximate cause is, that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, ami that it might and ought to have been foreseen under the circumstances. (Peniwylvania Railroad Co.... | |
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