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" The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this immediate cause of the death through the previous stages of mental aberration, physical suffering, and eight months' disease and medical treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Page 355
by 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 - 1884
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 78

Ohio. Supreme Court - 1908 - 598 pages
...of death, said: "The proximate cause of the death of Scheffer was his own act of self-destruction. The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument would lead back to that 'great first cause least...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 796 pages
...self-destruction. It was, within the rule in both these cases, a new cause and a sufficient cause of death. The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment, to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument would lead back to that "great first cause least...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 41

Isaac Grant Thompson - 1883 - 958 pages
...self-destruction. It was within the rule in both these cases a new cause, and a sufficient cause of death. The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument would lead back to that ' great first cause least...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 26

1883 - 572 pages
...self-destruction. It wag within the rule in both these cases anew cause, and a sufficient cause of death. . ¡4 The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...of mental aberration, physical suffering and eight mouths' disease and medical treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible...
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 pages
...company. Mr. Justice Miller, in delivering the opinion of the court, said : Opinion of the Court. " The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument \vould lead back to that ' great first cause least...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1885 - 732 pages
...The court said " the proximate cauaof Shaffer's death was his own act of self-destruction.'" * * * "The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this immediate cause of death, through the previous stages of mental alter ration, physical suffering and eight months' disease...
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The Southern Reporter, Volume 16

1895 - 1154 pages
...on a railway train became subsequently maimed, and eight months later took his life, the court say: "The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this immediate cause of the death, through the various stage» of mental aberration, physical suffering, and eight months' disease and medical treatment,...
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Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ..., Volume 28

1888 - 912 pages
...selfdestruction. It was within the rule in both these cases a new cause, and a sufficient cause of death. The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument would lead back to that " great first cause least...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 16

John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1891 - 1052 pages
...responsible for his deatk, because the effect was too remote from the alleged cause. Said JUSTICE MILLER: ''The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this immediate cause of the death, /'. e., the suicide, through the previous stages of mental aberration, physical suffering and eight...
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A Treatise of the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elemantary ..., Volume 1

Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1893 - 1132 pages
...body, is not a result which might naturally and reasonably be expected to follow. The court say : •' The argument is not sound which seeks to trace this...treatment to the original accident on the railroad. Such a course of possible or even logical argument would lead back to that ' great first cause least...
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