Shepherd v. Amos

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The defendants, Dan Plunket Shepherd and W. C. Shepherd, contend that the petition fails to set out a cause of action against them and that the court erred in overruling their general demurrers because it appears from the allegations of the petition that the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was not the alleged acts of negligence of these defendants but was the alleged acts of negligence of another person and that the same result would have followed in any event and irrespective of the alleged negligence charged against them. Counsel for these…