 The proximate cause of an injury is that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred.  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 3171905Full view - About this book
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 724 pages
...hotel. Proximate cause is defined (Vol. 16, p. 436, of the American and English Encyclopaedia of Law) as " that cause which in natural and continuous sequence,...without which that result would not have occurred." Elmer, A. Chase, a witness called by the plaintiff, was allowed, against the objection of the defendant,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 2084 pages
...material shipped not being in and of itself essentially dangerous. The proximate cause of an injury is that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred. In Insurance Co. v. Boon,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...alleged injury. " A ' proximate cause ' шау be defined as that cause which, in natural and continued sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause,...without which that result would not have occurred." 16 Am. <t Eng. Eiicy. Law, 416. This is the general rule " where no intervening efficient cause is... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1893 - 712 pages
...ul)le aud valuabje work) 16 Am> & Eug Ent. Law, 436, is this language : " A ' proximate cause ' may be defined as that cause which in natural and continuous...result would not have occurred ; and it is laid down in икшу cases, avid by leading text-writets, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 776 pages
...Company r. Nolan. NEGLIGENCE. — Proximate Cause of Injury. — Definition. — Proximate cause is any cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken...produced the result complained of, and without which the result would not have occurred. From the Floyd Circuit Court. A. Dowling and JK Marsh, for appellant.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1026 pages
...which is a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, prodiii'ing the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred. Weatern Ry. v. Mutch, 179. 6. A U'RO.NOUOKR AND TKFSPASSER CANNOT RECOVKR FOB INJURIIS which are tne... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 786 pages
...of which is often fraught with much difficulty. In a standard work of much merit, proximate cause is defined as "that cause which in natural and continuous...without which that result would not have occurred." 16 Am. and Eng. Encyc. of Law, 436. It has often been held by our Supreme Court, and the doctrine is... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - Torts - 1896 - 700 pages
...Goodlander Mill Co. v. Standard Oil Co.,183 is as adequate as any: "The proximate cause of an injury is that which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred. » • » The remote cause... | |
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