 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1070 pages
...natural. and probable sequence of the negligence or the wrongful act, iw and that it was such as might, or ought to, have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. But this rule la no test in cases where no intervening efficient cause is found between the original... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 830 pages
...warrant a finding that the negligence or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the...foreseen, in the light of the attending circumstances." In Hoagf. Railroad Co., 85 Pa. St. 293, 298, 299, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said : "The true... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 776 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." He states further: "We do not say that even the natural and probable consequences of a wrongful act... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1895 - 628 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. These circumstances, in a case like the present, are the strength and direction of the wind, the combustible... | |
 | Edwin Ames Jaggard - Torts - 1895 - 700 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is a proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." 116 Thus, where a common currier undertook to transport freight from Philadelphia to PittsHen. & M.... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural aud probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances." Scheffer i•. In Scheffer v. Railroad Company,2 through the negligence of the Ra1lroad Com- defendant... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 952 pages
...the injury it must appear that the injury was a natural and probable consequence of the negligence, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances. Railway Co. v. Kellogg, 94 US 475. The question, therefore, whether Ahern v. Telephone Co. the stretching... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 744 pages
...DEPARTMENT, JULY TEEM, 1894 [Vol 79. or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of the injury, it must appear that the injury was the...foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.'.' The rule as just quoted was reasserted in l&heffer v. Railroad Co. (105 US 249), which was a case where... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1896 - 942 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural...foreseen, in the light of the attending circumstances." Injuries arising from the accidental contact of live wires with the dead wires or with gas pipes, etc.,... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1896 - 970 pages
...warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural...foreseen, in the light of the attending circumstances." Injuries arising from the accidental contact of live wires with the dead wires or with gas pipes, etc.,... | |
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But it is generally held, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful... 
