 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...proximate canse of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science, or of legal knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances attending." The question here, whether the defect in the brake cansed the injury to the plaintiff,... | |
 | 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
...proximate cause of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science, or of legal knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact,...in view of the circumstances of fact attending it" To the same effect are, 2 Labatt, Mast. & Serv., section 805; Chicago, B. <t QK Co. v. Spirk, 51 Neb.... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...Hiyyiiu vs. Dewey, 107 Mass. 494; Tent Vs. Thf Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad Co. , 49 111. 349. ) The true rule is, that what is the proximate cause...in view of the circumstances of fact attending it. The primary cause may be the proximate cause of a disaster, though it may operate through successive... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...from the steamboat, without the aid of other causes not reasonably to be expected. Held, no error; the true rule is that what is the proximate cause...in view of the circumstances of fact attending it. The primary cause may be the proximate cause of a disaster, though it may operate through successive... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...injury is ordinarily a question for U,e jury. It is not a question of science or of le9al knowled9e. R is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances of fact attendin9 it. The primary cause may be the proximate cause of a disaster, thouyh it may operate throu9h... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science or of legal know-lodge. It Is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances of fact attending it." Our court has had frequent occasion to apply this rule, as, for example, Winters v. Baltimore & OR... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 764 pages
...It is said by the supreme court of the United States in M. & St. P. Railway Co.v. Kellogg, supra: " The true rule is, that what is the proximate cause...knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact, in view of the Brown and wife vs. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul B'y Co. circumstances of fact attending it." And... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 958 pages
...is said by the Supreme Court of the United States in M. & St. P. Railway Co. v. Ktllogg, supra : " The true rule is that what is the proximate cause...in view of the circumstances of fact attending it." And similar language was used by this court in the case of Patten v. Railway Co., 32 Wis. 524-535.... | |
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The true rule is that what is the proximate cause of an injury Is ordinarily a question for the Jury. It is not a question of science or of legal knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances of fact attending It. 
