Elliott v. Stone Baking Co.

1. Where, as the proximate result of an injury upon Ms head caused by the negligence of another, the person injured becomes insane and bereft of reason, and while in this condition and as a result thereof he takes his own life, his act is not a voluntary one, but is involuntary, and is not an act which breaks the causal connection between the homicide and the act which caused the injury, and the latter act is the proximate cause of the homicide. Green on Proximate Cause, 37; Accident Ins. Co. v. Crandal, 120 U. S. 527, 531 (7 Sup. Ct. 685, 30 L. *516ed. 740); Life Association v. Waller, 57 Ga.…