Spiers v. Consolidated Companies, Inc.

The conclusions herein reached by the majority on the question of proximate cause as relates to the defendant Consolidated Companies, Inc. and its insurer, the Travelers Insurance Co., and on the issue of causal relation between the herniaplasty performed upon plaintiff on October 27, 1956, and the subsequent myocardial infarction sustained by plaintiff compels me to dissent herein.

As I understand the majority opinion on the question of proximate cause, it holds the original opinion rendered herein was in error in concluding the engineer Thornton had the last clear chance to avoid the acci*818dent…