 In such a case the resort of the sufferer 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 to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore,...  The Federal Reporter - Page 4731905Full view - About this book
 | 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
...efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...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 - 726 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 - 1878 - 442 pages
...efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury. Here lies the difficulty. But the inquiry must Iie answered in accordance with common understanding.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...sufficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...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... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury. Here lies the difficulty. But the inquiry must be answered in accordance with common understanding.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1124 pages
...where the court says : "The inquiry must therefore always be whether there was any intermediate cnuse, disconnected from the primary fault, and self-operating,...; Insurance Company v. Boon, 95 US 117, 24 L. Ed. 395. If the court had seen fit thus to define proximate cause, and had further explained to the jury... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, und proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...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... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - Commerce - 1880 - 524 pages
...efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there...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... | |
 | 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
...efficient cause, the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, and proximate to it. The inquiry must therefore always be, whether there...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... | |
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