Leavitt v. Stamp

Defendants contend that the negligence alleged in the pleadings was not the proximate cause of the injury; that according to plaintiff’s testimony, the ironing board would not have fallen and the acci dent would not have happened but for the act of a third person in knocking it off the hook; that the act of this third person was an intervening cause, and that the testimony does not show the acts of defendants were the proximate cause of the injury.

The fact that the ironing board hung at different dates on a hook behind the door, in the place from which it is alleged to have fallen, shows that…