Stine v. Union Electric Co.

The majority opinion in this case does violence to the doctrine of proximate cause. When it is stated that the “only reasonable conclusion” is that the driver of the car could not see the child and that the child did not and could not see the car which was coming down the street, until the child emerged from behind the truck, we are going far afield in my opinion.

There is no evidence in the case, in my opinion, which tended to show that the act of the defendant in parking its truck near the intersection referred to in the majority opinion, was the proximate cause, or even a joint efficient…