Banks v. City of Richmond

The majority holds that, irrespective of the City’s negligence, Stahl’s intervening negligence was, as a matter of law, the sole proximate cause of Banks’ injuries. Because I believe evidence exists from which a jury could find that the City was negligent and that its negligence was a proximate cause of Banks’ injuries, I conclude that the trial court erred in failing to submit the case to the jury.

It is well established that there can be more than one proximate cause of an event. Coleman v. Blankenship Oil Corp., 221 Va. 124, 131, 267 S.E.2d 143, 147 (1980). An intervening cause will not…