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... The South Western Reporter - Page 71920Full view - About this book
| Frederick Sackett, Martin L. Newell - Instructions to juries - 1888 - 836 pages
...to be deemed the proximate cause of an injury, nn'ess the injury was snch a consequence of the act as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen or anticipated by an ordinarily reasonable and prudent man, as reasonably likely to flow from the act.... | |
| John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 894 pages
...Paxson, J., to be " 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 benn foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Hoag ». Lake Shore & MSRR Co., 85... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 858 pages
...Varnau were the natural and probable consequence of the negligence of the defendant, or its servants, such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and should have been foreseen by the servant as likely to flow from his carelessness, and there was no... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1058 pages
...The injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as .... might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act" The three leading cases above referred to, though frequently cited on opposite sides of the same argument,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 932 pages
...The injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence — such a consequence as might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Kerr, 62 Pa. 353; Pennsylvania R. Co. V.Hope, 80 Pa. 373; Hoag v. Lake Shore... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 634 pages
...cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the ftegligence, such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been seen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act:" Railway Co. v. Taylor, 104 Pa. 306 ; Township... | |
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