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" 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... "
Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 390
1905
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Cases on Damages Selected from Decisions of English and American Courts

Floyd Russell Mechem, Barry Gilbert - Damages - 1909 - 660 pages
...probable consequence of the negligence — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act?" * * * The rule quoted in Hoag v. Railroad Co., supra, is, in substance, the conclusion of Lord Bacon,...
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Cases on Measure of Damages

Isaac Franklin Russell - Damages - 1909 - 756 pages
...Railroad Co., 85 Pa. 293, to these facts, the question on which the case turns is: "Was the injury the natural and probable consequence of the negligence...consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act?" The rule quoted...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All ..., Volume 61

Railroad law - 1911 - 868 pages
...Bloomsburg & SR Co injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence charged — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances...to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to follow from his act. Township of West Mahanoy v. Watson, 112 Pa. 574, 3 Atl. 866, .Vi Am. Rep. 336....
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Cyclopedia of Law ...

Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 796 pages
...Hamman v. Ry. Co., 45 Ohio St. 11 ; Pittsburgh, etc., Ry. Co. v. Shields, 47 Ohio St. 387, 8 LRA 464. cause the true rule is that the injury must be the...foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act."1 Thus where some person stole an engine of a railroad company and maliciously started it along...
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Berks County Law Journal, Volume 5

Randolph Stauffer, Wellington M. Bertolet - Bar associations - 1913 - 774 pages
...not to be controlled by time or distance, but by the succession of events.' " Thus it will be seen that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. Should then...
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Northumberland Legal Journal, Volume 4

Charles K. Morganroth - Law - 1920 - 472 pages
...determining what is proximate cause the NORTHUMBERLAND LEGAL JOURNAL 309 HAFFLEY v. MARKLEY, ET. AL. true rule is that the injury must be the natural and...consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as, under thei surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 148

Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1278 pages
...were negligent in this respect, but to her fainting when she saw her two children going up in the car. "In determining what is proximate cause, the true...circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." Mitchell v. Rochester Ry. Co., 151 NY 107, 45...
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Cases on Legal Liability

Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...question propounded. In determining whether an act of a defendant is the proximate cause of an injury, the rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the act — such a consequence, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, as might and ought to...
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Cases on Legal Liability

Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...between the original act or omission and the injurious consequences. To constitute proximate cause the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, and be of such a character as an ordinarily prudent person ought to have foreseen might probably occur...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 185

Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1352 pages
...71. "In Pittsburg Southern R. Co. v. Taylor, 104 Pa. 315, 49 Am. Kep. 580, Mr. Justice Paxson said: 'In determining what is proximate cause, the true...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.' In Lane v. Atlantic Works, 111 Mass. 139, Colt, J., said: 'The injury must be the direct result of...
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