 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
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1338 pages
...be that which In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new Independent cause proevent would not have occurred. Proximity in 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... | |
 | Montana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 704 pages
...damages, he must show that the negligence charged was a proximate cause of the injury, ie, a cause which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produced the injury, and without which it would not have occurred. Same — Proximate Cause — What... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1076 pages
...immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from a remote, mediate, or predisposing cause; that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produced that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." In 8 Am. & Eng.... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 824 pages
...3S. 41 (2). ti. Proximate Causc.— Definition. — The proximate cause of an injury is that cause which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces the injury, and without which the injury would not have happened. Cityof Indianain,iis v. Xlitl<i:... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 880 pages
...present the derailment would not have occurred, and the burden was upon the plaintiff to show this. "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." [Dickson v. Omaha... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1344 pages
...[1 3] The court, In its charge, defined proximate cause as follows: "By 'proximate cause' is meant that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new independent cause, produces the event and without which the event would not have happened." Complaint is made of this part of the... | |
 | Montana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 762 pages
...and remote causes, see note in 36 Am. St. Eep. 807.] Same. 3. The "proximate cause" of an injury is that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause1, produces the injury, and without which the injury would not havs occurred. 8ame — Causal... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Negligence - 1914 - 1398 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. "" Briefly stated, it is the cause that necessarily sets the other causes in operation.23 § 50. Proximate... | |
 | William Herbert Page - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1914 - 1166 pages
...proximate cause of an event is that in which a natural and continued sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred: Railway v. Simpson, 12 0. CC (NS) 185, 21 OCD 349. The "proximate cause of injury" is that cause which... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...the proximate cause, of the damages to the plaintiff," the court defined proximate cause by saying: "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produced an event, and without which that event would not have occurred." In Strojny v. Griffin Wheel... | |
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