In the nature of things, there is in every transaction a succession of events, more or less dependent upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably... The Northeastern Reporter - Page 541891Full view - About this book
| Floyd Russell Mechem, Barry Gilbert - Damages - 1909 - 660 pages
...upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time. If we are not mistaken in these opinions, the Circuit Court was correct in refusing to affirm the defendants'... | |
| William Benjamin Hale - Damages - 1912 - 698 pages
...those preceding, and it is the province of the jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time." See, also, Sallie v. New York City R. Co., 110 App. Div. 665, 97 NY Supp. 491; WOOD v. PENNSYLVANIA... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1140 pages
...upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or fncts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time. If we are not mistaken in these opinions, the Circuit Court was correct in refusing to affirm (he defendants'... | |
| Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1914 - 964 pages
...upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time. * * * Judgment for plaintiff affirmed. THE DUBUQUE WOOD AND COAL ASSOCIATION v. THE CITY AND COUNTY... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1222 pages
...upon those preceding, and it Is the province of a Jury to look at this succession of events or facts and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time." The various authorities and text-writers In attempting to formulate a definition for "proximate cause"... | |
| Appellate courts - 1914 - 746 pages
...94 US 469, 476 (24 L. Ed. 256) : province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...by a continuous sequence, or are dissevered by new or independent agencies, and this must be determined in view of the circumstances existing at the time."... | |
| Charles Albert Keigwin - Torts - 1915 - 584 pages
...those preceding; and it is the province of the jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time.* Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company vs. Constable, 39 Md. 149 (1873). The road... | |
| Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably...in view of the circumstances existing at the time. If we are not mistaken in these opinions, the Circuit Court was correct in refusing to affirm the defendants'... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1268 pages
...are naturally and probably connected with eacli other by a continuous sequence, or are dissev'.Te.l by new and independent agencies, and this must be...in view of the circumstances existing at the time." Again, the same judge says in -¿Etna Insurance Co. v. Boon, 95 US 117, 24 L. Ed. 395: "The proximate... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1360 pages
...upon those preceding, and it is the province of a jury to look at this succession of events or facts, and ascertain whether they are naturally and probably connected with each other by a continuons sequence, or are dissevered by new and independent agencies, and this must be determined... | |
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