The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. Harvard Law Review - Page 5441902Full view - About this book
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1226 pages
...causes, and 341 not merely as a condition. In volume 6, page 5760, of Words and Phrases, it is stated: "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by a new cause, produces that event and without which that event would not have occurred." The term "proximate... | |
| Railroad law - 1909 - 860 pages
...proximate causes, and not merely as a condition. In volume 6, p. 5760, of Words and Phrases, it is stated : "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by a new cause, produces that event and without which that event would not have occurred." The term "proximate... | |
| George Richards - Forms (Law) - 1909 - 1002 pages
...proximate cause of an event must be held to be that which in a natural sequence unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred," Rider v. Syracuse Ry. Co., 171 NY 139, 147, 63 NE 836. 1 Heiter v. Northeastern Ins. Co., 144 111.... | |
| Floyd Russell Mechem, Barry Gilbert - Damages - 1909 - 660 pages
...event must be understood to be that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." * * * Lynch v. Nurdin, 1 QB (NS) 29, 41 ECL 422, is the strongest of the cases relied on in support... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1148 pages
...an event, juridically considered, which In a natural sequence, unbroken by any new and intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." Smith v. Connecticut Ry. & Ltg. Co., 80 Conn. 268, 270, 67 Atl. 888. The last conscious agent in producing... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1266 pages
...between the negligence of the defendants and the death of Mize. The proximate cause of an injury is that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces the injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred: Goodlander M. Co. v. Standard Oil... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1252 pages
...v. St. Louis etc. B. E. Co., 211 Mo. 419, 124 Am. St. Eep. 786. The proximate cause of an injury is that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new independent cause, produces the injury, without •which the injury would not have occurred. It is not necessary to show that the... | |
| Ohio. Circuit Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 670 pages
...proximate cause of an event is that which in a natural and continued sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred; and the act of one person can not be said to be the proximate cause of an injury when the act of another... | |
| Railroad law - 1911 - 868 pages
...guilty of negligence, was the remote cause. In Sherman & Redfield on Negligence, § 26, it is said : "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...point of time or space, however. is no part of the definition. That is of no importance, except as it may afford evidence for or against proximity of... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1068 pages
...prepared for it. Mr. Dresser, in his work on Employers' Liability, says: "A proximate cause of any event must be understood to be that which In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event and without which that event would not have occurred," also "when, however,... | |
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