 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 892 pages
...Nashville Railroad Co. v. Quick.] only through or by means of some intervening cause, from Avhicli last cause, the injury followed as a direct and immediate...consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that which was more remote. The chief and sufficient reason... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 714 pages
...Seith case, supra, we further said, quoting Judge Coolcy: "If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...means of some intervening cause, from which last cause injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last or... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 604 pages
...cause. The explanation of this maxim may be given thus: If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that which was more remote." Continuing, the author says:... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1246 pages
...In 1 Cooley on Torts (3d Ed.) 99, It Is said: "If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certnin wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means...refuse to trace it to that which was more remote. The chief and sufficient reason for this rule is to be found in the impossibility of tracing consequences... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 932 pages
...wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means of some intervening cause, from which last cause injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence,...will refer the damage to the last or proximate cause end refuse to trace it to that which was more remote." And further quoting Wharton on Negligence: "Supposing... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1044 pages
...Cooley lays down the rule for its determination to be: "If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...refuse to trace It to that which was more remote. The chief and sufficient reason for this rule is to be found in the Impossibility of tracing consequences... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 974 pages
...plaintiff's intestate. The rule is fully settled to be that " if an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...or proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that remote." Cooley Torts, fi8, 69; 1 Anderson Torts, .12, 13, §§ 10, 11. The statute under consideration... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1888 - 1060 pages
...cause. The explanation of this maxim may be given thus : If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...or by means of some intervening cause, from which JastJ*can8e the injnry followed as a direct and imme- [*69] diate consequence, the law will refer the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1042 pages
...must be the legitimate consequence of the thing amiss. If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...refuse to trace it to that which was more remote." But the court declined to instruct the jury except as follows: 41 The plaintiff must prove, by the... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1890 - 924 pages
...plaintiff's intestate. The rule is fully settled to be, that ' if an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through...intervening cause, from which last cause the injury followed a« a direct and immediate conseqnence, the law will refer the damage to the last or proximate cause,... | |
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If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means of some intervening cause, from which last cause the injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence, the law will refer the damage to the... 
