Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided February 18, 1913No. 3349PublishedCited by 27 opinions
Error from Superior Court, Pottawatomie County; Geo. C. Abernathy, Judge. Action by J. L. Hughes against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff. From order of the court granting a new trial, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
' AVILLIAMS, J.
This proceeding in error seeks to have reviewed the action of the trial court in sustaining a motion by the defendant in error for a new trial.
Instruction number 9, given at the request of the plaintiff (plaintiff in error), is as follows:
“You are instructed that the proximate cause or causes, of an injury is that efficient and moving cause or causes, without which cause or causes, the injury would not have happened. And in this case, if you find from the evidence before you that the plaintiff’s injuries, if you find that he was injured, was the proximate result of the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Hogan v. BaileySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
- Hobbs v. SmithSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
- Solts v. Southwestern Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
- Trower v. RobertsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1907
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. DuranSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
- Ponca City Ice Co. v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
- Producers' Oil Co. v. EatonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
- Cushing Gasoline Co. v. HutchinsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
- St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. WootenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
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