| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1915 - 718 páginas
...negligent act or omission should foresee the precise form of the injury, 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... | |
| 1892 - 582 páginas
...accident was not the proximate cause. The rule ou this subject is as follows: "In dctermining what is the proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury...circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Hailwuy Co. v. Taylor, 104 Penn. St. 306; Township... | |
| 1879 - 540 páginas
...sparks or burning coals from defendants' locomotive. The rule for determining what its proxinoate cause Is, that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the act in the first instance, and that it might and ought to have been foreseen under the circumstances.... | |
| 1897 - 642 páginas
...doctrine as to remote and proximate cause as held in Pennsylvania has been thus stated in many cases: "In determining what is proximate cause the true rule...under the surrounding circumstances of the case might have been foreseen by the wrong doer as likely to flow from his act": Hoag v. RR Co., 85 Pa. 293; Pass.... | |
| 1882 - 634 páginas
...to correctly ascertain the proximate cause of an accident. The general rule applicable to such cases is, " That the injury must be the natural and probable...negligence : such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstance of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from... | |
| 1896 - 644 páginas
...not the natural and probable consequence of the breaking of this guy rope lying upon the track — such a consequence, as, under the surrounding circumstances...case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the agents of the railroad company as likely to flow from their act. Even if the employees of the company... | |
| 1876 - 972 páginas
...of the cause of the injury. The rule for determining what is a proximate cause may be stated thus : that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, and that this consequence might and ought to have been foreseen under the surrounding circumstances.... | |
| 1877 - 558 páginas
...probable, consequence of the negligence of defendants. The rule for determining what is proximate cause is, that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, ami that it might and ought to have been foreseen under the circumstances. (Peniwylvania Railroad Co.... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1878 - 692 páginas
...<f NWRW Co 26 Wis. 224. 2. The damage, was it proximate or remote? To render the defendant liable, the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might or <">ught to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to result from his act. But where a fire... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 páginas
...substantially recognized in The Railroad Company v. Kerr, and T7ie Railroad Company v. Hope, supra, that in determining what is proximate cause, the true...the negligence — such a consequence as, under the surroundDoreey v. Abrams. ing circumstances of the case, might and ought to hsivc been foreseen by... | |
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