 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Fire insurance - 1886 - 682 pages
...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...fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury. Here lies the difficulty. But the inquiry must be answered in accordance with common understanding.... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...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...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
...must be to the originator of the intermediate cause. But where there is no intermediate sufficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - Commerce - 1880 - 524 pages
...are in all cases to be chargeable to the mis-feasance or non-feasance. They are not, when there is a sufficient and independent cause operating between...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...no intermediate efficient cause the original wrong must be considered as reaching to the effect, und proximate to it. The inquiry must, therefore, always...which produced the injury." I cannot hold that the Kdloyg Case is an authority to the position taken by the plaintiff that the question of remote or proximate... | |
 | 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
...nonfeasance. They are not when there is a suflicient and independent cause operating between the wrong and injury. In such a case the resort of the sufferer...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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The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there was any intermediate cause disconnected from the primary fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury. 
