...maintained' must be the proximate cause of the Injury sustained ; and the proximate cause of an event is that which In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and Independent cause, produces that event, and without which, that event would not have occurred."...

...definition of "proximate cause" found in the books is either the following or some of Its paraphrases: "Ttie proximate cause of an event must be understood to...without which that event would not have occurred." 1 Shearman & Redfield. Negligence (6th Ed.) $ 20; Cooley on Torts (3d Ed.) p. 124. [1 , 2] There may...

...proximate causes, and not merely as a condition. In volume G, p. 5700, of Words and Phrases, it is stated: "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by a new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." The term "proximate...

...of the damage to the cattle which were deprived of water? The proximate cause of an injury Is thnt which, In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces the Injury, and without which it would not have occurred. Mize v. Rocky Mountain Bell Tel. Co., 38...

...expressed by Judge Martin as "that which, in a natural and continual sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred; and the act of one person cannot be said to be the proximate cause of an injury when the act of another...

...walked into it. If he bad stood still, both plaintiffs were safe. Proximate cause, as I repeat, is that which, In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, Independent cause, produces an event. He was standing In the highway, and he was Injured in consequence of some other person first...

...1916.) 1. NEGLIGENCE ©=»56(1)— "PROXIMATE CAUSE" —ELEMENTS. The proximate cause of an injury is that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause produces the injury, and without which it would not have occurred, and a wrongdoer who puts into operation a...

...of an event Juridically considered, which In a natural sequence, unbroken by a new and Intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation separated from Its effect by no other act of causation." But...

...event, we have said that it was one "which, In a natural sequence, unbroken by any new and intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation, separated from its effect by no other act of causation."...

...that appellants' negligence was not the proximate cause of the injuries sustained by the appellee. "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...Independent cause, produces that event and without which the event would not have occurred." Shear. & R. Neg. (5th Ed.) § 20. "Where there is negligence, and...