 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1886 - 1340 pages
...reasonable degree of foresight would suppose likely to happen. I hid. 32. To render the defendant liable, the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence, such as under the circumstances ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer, as the natural consequence... | |
 | 1889 - 956 pages
...Varnau were the natural and probable consequence of the negligence of the defendant, or its servants, such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and should have been foreseen by the servant as likely to flow from his carelessness, and there was no... | |
 | 1887 - 972 pages
...as to proximate cause as follows : "In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is, that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Tested by this rule, the negligence and... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1887 - 1004 pages
...rule as to proximate cause as follows: " In determining what is proximate cause the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence...circumstances of the case might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrong-doer as likely to flow from his act." Tested by this rule the negligence and... | |
 | 1918 - 1336 pages
...ascertain whether the injury is the natural and probable consequence of the negligence act ; that is, such a consequence as under the surrounding circumstances of the case might and ought to have been foreseen by a reasonably prudent person, in the exercise of ordinary care, as likely to result from... | |
 | 1920 - 1206 pages
...cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the act — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act. Hoag v. Lake Shore & MSR Co., 85 Pa. 293,... | |
 | 1887 - 988 pages
...should find that his injuries were the natural and probable consequence of the act of the conductor ; such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and should have been foreseen by the conductor as likely to flow from his act. It is said that these points... | |
 | 1903 - 1240 pages
...the test of defendant's liability Is that the consequences of the act complained of were such as, in the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the defendant. Poeppers v. Railway Co., 67 Mo. 715, 29 Am. Rep. 518; Stanley v. Railway... | |
 | 1914 - 1282 pages
...car. "In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule Is that the Injury must be the natural aud probable consequence of the negligence ; such a consequence...by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act." Mitchell v. Rochester Ry. Co., 151 NY 107, 45 NE 354, 34 LRA 781, 56 Am. St. Rep. 604 ; Hack v. Dady,... | |
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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 been seen by the... 
