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" 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. "
Commentaries on the Law of Negligence in All Relations: (including a ... - Page 23
by Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1914
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 63-64

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, 93 US 117,...
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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
...1. Proximate Cause Defined. — In the light of this discussion a proximate cause may be denned as that cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred.3 And it is...
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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 - 1893 - 712 pages
...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 sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred ; and it is...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 135

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 - 1894 - 776 pages
...Company r. Nolan. NEGLIGENCE. — Proximate Cause of Injury. — Definition. — Proximate cause is any cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which the result would not have occurred. From the Floyd...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Appellate Court of ..., Volume 10

Indiana. Appellate Court - 1895 - 786 pages
...often fraught with much difficulty. In a standard work of much merit, proximate cause is defined as "that cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred." 16 Am. and...
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Handbook on the Law of Torts

William Benjamin Hale - 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 is that cause...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 53

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1897 - 1064 pages
...fire, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the loss. NEGLIGENCE.— PROXIMATE CAUSE IS THAT CAUSE which. In natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and -without which that result would not have occurred. The cause...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 53

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1897 - 1070 pages
...often fraught with much difficulty. In a standard work of much merit, proximate •cause is defined as "that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred": 16 Am. &...
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The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law, Volume 7

David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1208 pages
...Washington, etc., R. Co. ;'. Hickey, 166 US 525. /vr Perkham, J. " 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, and the remote cause of an injury is...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 43

1899 - 914 pages
...Electricity, «8 500-594; Thompson, Electricity, §§ 312, 313. A proximate cause may be defined as that cuuse which in natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any efficient intervening cause produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not huve occurred. 10 Am. &...
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