We do not say that even the natural and probable consequences of a wrongful act or omission are in all cases to be charged to the misfeasance or nonfeasance. They are not when there is a sufficient and independent cause operating between the wrong and... The Northeastern Reporter - Page 3331920Full view - About this book
| Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...ought to have been 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...of a wrongful act or omission are in all cases to be chargeable to the misfeasance or. nonfeasance. They are not when there is a sufficient and independent...cause operating between the wrong and the injury. In Biich a case the resort of the siifferer must be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But where... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...omission are in all cases to be chargeable to the misfeasance or non-feasance. They are not when there is sufficient and independent cause operating between...wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, und proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there was any intermediate cause,... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 958 pages
...of a wrongful act or omission are in all cases to be chargeable to the misfeasance or non-feasance. They are not when there is a sufficient and independent cause operating between the wrong and injury. In such a case the resort of the sufferer muse be to the originator of the intermediate cause.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1148 pages
...consequences of a wrongful act or omission are in all cases to be charged to the misfeasance or nonfeasance. They are not when there is a sufficient and independent...intermediate cause. But when there is no Intermediate sufficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to... | |
| Henry Taylor Terry - Jurisprudence - 1884 - 736 pages
...natural and probable consequences of wrongful conduct are not always chargeable against the wrong-doev. " They are not when there is a sufficient and independent...must be to the originator of the intermediate cause." Sometimes the time-honored phrase causa proximo, is preferred. Any given consequence is a result not... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1126 pages
...consequences of a wrongful act or omission are not chargeable to the misfeasance or nonfeasance, where there is a sufficient and independent cause operating...be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But where there is no intermediate efficient cause, the original wrong must ho considered as reaching to... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1406 pages
...incidental to it, but independent of it, is shown to have intervened between it and the result.' Where there is no intermediate efficient cause, the original...considered as reachIng to the effect and proximate to it" It is argued in this case that, if the respondent had failed or refused to force the block against... | |
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