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... Pittsburgh Legal Journal - Página 681898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1899 - 914 páginas
...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 have... | |
| 1899 - 942 páginas
...somewhere. There is a possibility of carrying an admittedly correct principle too far * * * The true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the [defendant's] negligence — such a consequence, as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case,... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1040 páginas
...then quoting Pennsylvania RR Co. v. Hope, 80 Pa. St. 373, 21 Am. Rep. 100, he adopts as the safest rule, "that the injury must be the natural and probable...consequence as under the surrounding circumstances of the caw might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer u likely to follow from his act." It is... | |
| 1900 - 902 páginas
...approval from the case of Hoag v. Railroad Co., 85 Pa. St 293, as follows : — " The true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, — such consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1012 páginas
...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, aa might and ought to have... | |
| Archibald Robinson Watson - 1901 - 1040 páginas
...are to the same effect. "In determining what is proximate cause" it has been said, "the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act."* An action can be... | |
| Waterman Lester Williams - 1901 - 414 páginas
...bridge must be the proximate cause of the plaintiff>s injury. In the language of a recent case : 1 "The injury must be the natural and probable consequence...under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer, and likely to flow from his act. " It does not necessarily... | |
| 1901 - 972 páginas
...i!. R. Co. 124 NY 308, 20 N. E. 91Ü. In determining what is the proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...the negligence, ; such a consequence as, under the Em-rounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely... | |
| Floyd Russell Mechem - 1902 - 788 páginas
...is again put somewhat more tersely by the present chief justice in Hoag v. Railroad Co., as follows: "The injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, — such a consequence as * * * might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. " The... | |
| John Milton Gardner, Walter James Eagle - 1903 - 798 páginas
...car, the car was in its proper place, and in determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. The company had a right... | |
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