 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But when there is no intermediate efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury." While this court has never apparently attempted to accurately define the term "proximate cause, "it... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 728 pages
...whole, or was there some new and independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury? * * * The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...fault and self-operating, which produced the injury." It is true that in this case the voluntary act of the decedent intervened between the negligent act... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." " Where there is no immediate efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it." In the case of Hoyt v. Jeffers, 30 Mich, isl. more than one building was burned by fire communicated... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But when there is no intermediate efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching...answered in accordance with common understanding. In a succession of dependent events an interval may always be seen by an acute mind between a cause... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...must be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But when there is no intermediate efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching...injury. Here lies the difficulty. But the inquiry must Iie answered in accordance with common understanding. In a succession of dependent events an interval... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But where there is no intermediate sufficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury. In the nature of things there is in every transaction a succession of events, more or- less dependent... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 858 pages
...said, in considering what is the proximate and what the remote cause of an injury, " The inquiry must always be whether there was any intermediate cause...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury." In the present case, the burning of the city hall and the spread of the fire afterwards was not a new... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - Commerce - 1880 - 524 pages
...be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But when there is no intermediate efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching...fault, and selfoperating, which produced the injury." (94 US Hep. 475.) I should be bound by the rule thus stated by the highest Federal Court. In view of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 948 pages
...must be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But when there is no intermediate efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury." I cannot hold that the Kellogg Case is an authority to the position taken by the plaintiff that the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...no intermediate efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, und proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury." I cannot hold that the Kdloyg Case is an authority to the position taken by the plaintiff that the... | |
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The Inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there was any Intermediate cause, disconnected from the primary fault and self-operating, which produced the Injury. 
