 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...must determine whether the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances...case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended by one setting fire... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...true rule is, that the injury must be the natural [and probable consequence of the negligence, such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances...case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act. This is not a limitation of the maxim causa proximo, non... | |
 | 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...case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended by one setting fire... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1124 pages
...true rule Is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances...case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from the act." In the light of these and other authorities, and the undisputed... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 896 pages
...Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. McEeen. natural and probable consequence of the negligence, such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances...case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. What would be more quickly apprehended, by one setting fire... | |
 | Law - 1882 - 264 pages
...accident is that "the injury must be the natural and probable consequences of the negligence, such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." — City of Lancaster i'. Kissinger, 13 Lancaster... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 258 pages
...natural and probable result of defendant's negligence. See King v. Lehigh Valley RR Co., 245 Pa. 25. as- under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to be foreseen by the wrong doer as likely to flow from his acts;" Swansbn v. Crandall, supra; while such... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 448 pages
...Pa., 293, it is said: "The injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances...case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." In Wallace v. Keystone Auto Co., 239 Pa., no, proximate... | |
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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... 
