 The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred.  The Northwestern Reporter - Page 671891Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 1912 - 666 pages
...must be found by the jury to have been the proximate cause of the injury, denned to be "that cause, which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produced the injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred," and the court leaving to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 2268 pages
...maintained' must be the proximate cause of the Injury sustained ; and the proximate cause of an event is that which In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and Independent cause, produces that event, and without which, that event would not have occurred."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1212 pages
...cause" found in the books is either the following or some of Its paraphrases: "Ttie proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which, in...natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." 1 Shearman... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1164 pages
...merely as a condition. In volume G, p. 5700, of Words and Phrases, it is stated: "The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by a new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." The term "proximate... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 960 pages
...not only a cause, but a proximate cause, of the damag« to the plaintiff. * * * The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which, in...natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." Shearman... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1116 pages
...speed upon him." "The proximate cause of an event," It Is said in 1 Shear. & Red. Neg. (6th Ed.) § 26, "must be understood to be that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, Independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. * * *... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1140 pages
...of an event Juridically considered, which In a natural sequence, unbroken by a new and Intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation separated from Its effect by no other act of causation." But... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1166 pages
...event, we have said that it was one "which, In a natural sequence, unbroken by any new and intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation, separated from its effect by no other act of causation."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1162 pages
...walked into it. If he bad stood still, both plaintiffs were safe. Proximate cause, as I repeat, is that which, In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, Independent cause, produces an event. He was standing In the highway, and he was Injured in consequence... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1250 pages
...rejection would make nearly all reported cases on the question involved unintelligible. Theproximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which, in...without which that event would not have occurred. Proximately in point of time or space, however, is no part of the definition. That is of no importance... | |
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