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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... "
Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ... - Page 408
1893
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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 - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...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 wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." Applying this rule to the facts of the present case, can...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 9

Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...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 wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended by one setting fire...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 17

Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...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 wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. This is not a limitation of the maxim causa proximo, non...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 20

Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...natural and probable consequence of the negligence — euch a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended by one setting fire...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 35

Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 896 pages
...McEeen. 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 wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended, by one setting fire...
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The Lancaster Law Review, Volume 31

Law - 1914 - 448 pages
...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 wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." In Wallace v. Keystone Auto Co., 239 Pa., no, proximate...
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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 - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...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 wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Township of West Mahonoy v. Watson, (Sup. Ct. Pa., May...
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Pittsburgh Legal Journal, Volume 31

Law - 1884 - 542 pages
...that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence ol the negligence; such a consequence as, under the circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been forsecn by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. No question of fact Is too difficult for a...
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Some Leading Principles of Anglo-American Law Expounded with a View to Its ...

Henry Taylor Terry - Jurisprudence - 1884 - 736 pages
...was held that the damage was too remote, it not being " such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." It seems to me more correct to say that in the circumstances...
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A Treatise on the Law of Railroads, Volume 2

Horace Gay Wood - Railroad law - 1885 - 804 pages
...the proximate cause of an injury, unless the injury was such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the actor as likely to flow from his act ; and that where, owing to failure of the engineer of an oil train...
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