Akins v. Federated Mutual Implement & Hardware Insurance

Russell, Judge.

“The mere fact that one event chronologically follows another is alone insufficient to establish a causal *873relation between them. Post hoc non propter hoc. Evidence that a woman suffered a pain in her heart and other physical ailments after having swallowed a liquid ... is, in the absence of evidence as to any facts tending to show a causal relation between the woman’s physical condition and the swallowing of the liquid, insufficient to authorize an inference of fact that her condition was caused by the swallowing and the ill tasting effects of the liquid.” Payne v. Chandler, 41…