| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 660 pages
...not, under any definition of proximate cause that has ever been given by any court or text writer? Take that of Greenleaf, with which counsel for appellee...the second fifty feet of the building as well as for Opinion of the Court. the first, when there is one continuous building, and whether owned by one person... | |
| William L. Scott, Milton P. Jarnagin (of Memphis, Tenn.) - Telegraph - 1868 - 600 pages
...the contemplation of the parties. The rule in actions ex delicto is, that the damages to be recovered must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of. This is the rule when no malice, fraud, oppression, or evil intent intervenes. The damages which may... | |
| Joseph Brown Heiskell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 882 pages
...seems to have been in many cases of this character entirely ignored, that damages, to be recovered, must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of. Mr. Greenleaf lays down in Volume IF. of his work on Evidence, § 268, "that, in proof of damages,... | |
| Law - 1870 - 788 pages
...t Cf. L 8, a. 1 ht î Cf. 1. 52, a. 2 Л. (. Il The modern rule is that the damage to be recovered must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of: but this does not mean that the act must be the sole and exclusive cause—only that it is the сauт... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 670 pages
...limit somewhere. Greenleaf, in vol. 2, § 256, touches the question thus: " The damages to be recovered must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of." This is undoubtedly the rule. The difficulty is in distinguishing what is proximate and what L —... | |
| Law - 1873 - 680 pages
...building was only thirty-nine feet from the first. We presume that Court would hold, and appellee's counsel would admit, that A might recover for the...burning of the second fifty feet of the building, in the wise supposed, the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of, to wit, the careless... | |
| Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...Holloway v. Calvin. Ala., 84 So. 737. 40. Fraud — Proximate Cause. — Damages recoverable for fraud must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of.— Linderman Mach. Co. v. Hillen Brand Co., Ind.. 127 NE 813. 41. Fraud*. Statute of — Executed Contract.... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 866 pages
...not, under any definition of proximate cause that has ever been given by any court or text writer ? Take that of Greenleaf, with which counsel for appellee...fifty feet of the building as well as for the first, when there is one continuous building, and whether owned by one person or by two, is it possible that,... | |
| John Waller Head - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 426 pages
...passage in 2 Greenl. on Ev., sec. 256, where, in illustration of the rule, that the damages to be given must be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of, he says, " it has. been held that, in assumpsit for breach of a promise to many, evidence of seduction... | |
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