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" Hope, supra, that in determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have... "
Pennsylvania State Reports - Page 130
by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1881
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...cause as follows: " In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." Applying this rule to the facts of the present case, can it be said that the injury of Mrs. Trich was...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 37

Law - 1888 - 556 pages
...canse as follows : "In determining what is proximate canse, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence,...foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his sot." Applying this rule to the facts of the present case, can it be said that the injury of Mrs. Trich...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 9

Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...as a consequence likely to flow from his negligence In not looking out and seeing the land slide." " It is manifest that the negligence was the remote...in its pathway? There is no error in the answer to defendants' fourth point; besides, in the general charge on this matter, the court called attention...
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Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ..., Volume 40

Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 642 pages
...stated in many cases: ''In determining what is proximate cause the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence;...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act": Hoag v. R. R. Co., supra; Pass. Ry. Co. v. Trich, 117 Pa. 39O; Swanson v. Crandall, 2 Pa. Super. Ct....
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 17

Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...Hope, supra, that in determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is, that the injury must be the natural [and probable consequence of the negligence,...by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. This is not a limitation of the maxim causa proximo, non remota spectator; it only affects its application....
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 20

Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...must determine whether the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence — euch a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances...than that it would run before the wind and consume properly in its pathway? There is no error in the answer to the defendant's fourth point; besides,...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 27

Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...consequence as, under the surroundDoreey v. Abrams. ing circumstances of the case, might and ought to hsivc been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. This is not a limitation of the maxim causa proxima non remota tpectatur; it only affects its application....
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 135

Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1124 pages
...v. Railroad Co., 85 Pa. 293, 27 Am. Rep. 653, it is said : "The true rule Is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence...been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from the act." In the light of these and other authorities, and the undisputed evidence in these cases,...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1882 - 722 pages
...determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is, that the injury must be the natural andprobable consequence of the negligence ; such a consequence...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." In view of the testimony in this case, the court could not undertake to ilecide that the trespass had...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...by law. " That in determining what is proximity of cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence...by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Township of West Mahonoy v. Watson, (Sup. Ct. Pa., May 9, 1887.) 9 Atl. Rep. 433. In the case of Hoag...
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