Maddux v. Donaldson

With advent of modern motor transit and traffic, the courts of the States are regularly confronted with a new and progressively vexing problem, that of instructing juries properly when a provenly innocent plaintiff is shown as having been injured in the course of multiple or chain vehicular collisions caused by 2 or more negligent motorists.

This case, unlike Meier v. Holt, 347 Mich 430, in fact (see footnote pp 440, 441 of Meier’s report), is one where it cannot “certainly” be said that the injuries suffered by each plaintiff would have resulted, absent concurrence of the successive negligent…