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. The Southwestern Reporter - Page 71920Full view - About this book
| Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...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 of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science or legal knowledge. It is to be... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...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 of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science or legal knowledge. It is to be... | |
| Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...Hi99ins v. Dewey, 107 id. 494 ; Tent v. The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad Co., 49 I11. 340. The true rule is that what is the proximate cause of an injury is ordinarily a question for U,e jury. It is not a question of science or of le9al knowled9e. R is to... | |
| 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
...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 of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science or legal knowledge. It is to be... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 958 pages
...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 of an injury is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is not a question of science or legal knowledge. It is to be... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1126 pages
...defendant, and from the. elevator to plaintiff's mill an 1 lumber. The court ruled as follows: 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 legal knowledge. It is to be... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1150 pages
...decisions were made. And certainly they are in conflict with numerous other decided cases. » * » 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1176 pages
...alleged Intoxication was not the proximate cause of tue death of the husband of appellee. Whether an act is the proximate cause of an injury is a question for the jury upon the evidence, under appropriate instructions. It is, in other words, a mixed question of law and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1350 pages
...Supreme Court of the United States, in Railway Co. v. Kellogg, 94 US 469 (24 L. Ed. 256), says: "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... | |
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