Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Strickland

The defendant demurred generally to the petition on the grounds that it did not set out a cause of action against the defendant, because it showed affirmatively that no act or omission on the part of the defendant, its agents, servants, or employees constituted a Violation of any duty owing by the defendant or its employees to the plaintiff, the proximate results of which were the plaintiff’s injuries, and because it affirmatively appeared from the petition that the sole proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was the act of the woman who changed her course and ran into the petitioner…