 It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence or an act not amounting to wanton wrong is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the...  The Pacific Reporter - Page 2261918Full view - About this book
 | Appellate courts - 1905 - 856 pages
...proximate cause. Said language is as follows : "In order to warrant a finding that negligence or an act amounting to wanton wrong Is the proximate cause of...probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that It ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." But the court... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 768 pages
...have been submitted as requested. Setting aside the question of contributory negligence, however, " in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to a wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 936 pages
...Thorn p. Neg. 1125; ffartfieM v. Roper, 21 Wend. 615; Con tray v. Reed, 66 Mo. 346, 27 Am. Rep. 854. In order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to a wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1893 - 712 pages
...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,...probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that.it was such as might or ought to have been foreseen, in the light of the attending circumstances."... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 812 pages
...the proximate, not to the remote, cause. It is laid down in many cases and by leading text-writers, that in order to warrant a finding that negligence...appear that the injury was the natural and probable sequence of the negligence or the wrongful act, and that it was such as might, or ought to, have been... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1894 - 626 pages
...and the injury? It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence,...probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." The court further... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1026 pages
...that result would not have occurred. And it is laid down in many cases and by leading text-writers that in order to warrant a finding that negligence...probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it was such as might or ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1280 pages
...and the Injury? It is admitted that the rule Is diftk-ult of application. But it Is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence,...probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that It ought to have been foreseen hi the light of the attending circumstances." The court further... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1070 pages
...the proximate, not to the remote, cause. It ia laid down in many cases and by leading textwritert, that in order to warrant a finding that negligence or an act not amounting to wanton wrong ia the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural. and probable sequence... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 704 pages
...circumstances of the case. To warrant a jury in finding that negligence is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. Railway Co. v.... | |
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