Swanson v. Crandall
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 26, April T., 1896, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., March T., 1895, No. 79, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass.
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Appeal, No. 26, April T., 1896, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., March T., 1895, No. 79, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass. Before Noyes, P. J. Verdict for plaintiff for 1300. The facts were stated by the opinion of the Superior Court as follows : Amy Swanson, aged nineteen, was engaged by appellants as a nurse girl; her duty being to care for a babe three months old, and incidentally of a little girl (Evelyn) five years of age, their clothing and her own room. The family was composed of appellants, the children mentioned, the plaintiff and another servant. About 7 o’clock…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
(after stating the facts as above):
The doctrine of proximate and remote cause has been decided in a great variety of cases. One of the most valuable of the *89criteria furnished by the authorities, is to ascertain whether any new cause has intervened between the fact accomplished and the alleged cause. If a new force or power, has-intervened of its elf, ^sufficient to stand as the cause of themnisfortune, the other-must-be-considered as too remote.: L. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Tweed, 7 Wall. (U. S.) 44-53.
If two distinct causes are operating at the same time to produce a given…
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