Stanton v. Clegg
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtBergan, J.
This appeal examines in search of negligence a chain of events in series. There is a thread of association between them and some logical interdependence, or so a jury might find. The appellants raise the question whether the events setting the series in motion became in the classic sense the “ proximate cause ” of the plaintiff’s injuries which came at the end.
*488The application to actual cases of the rule of proximate and remote cause, itself troublesome enough, here is burdened by a claim that the original actors gave a new and fresh negligent impulse to the stream of events midway in its…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Axelrod v. KrupinskiNew York Court of Appeals · 1951
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