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" 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 544
1902
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 125

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...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases ...

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...
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A Treatise on the Law of Insurance in All Its Branches: Especially Fire ...

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....
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Cases on Damages Selected from Decisions of English and American Courts

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...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 72

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...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 129

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...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 130

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...
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Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series, Volume 12

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...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases ...

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...
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The Southern Reporter, Volume 55

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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