Alabama Power Company v. Guy

I entertain the view that the trial court erred in overruling those grounds of appellant’s demurrer directed to Counts One, Two and Three as finally amended which took the point that the count shows on its face that the negligence, if any, of the appellant was not the proximate cause of the injury to Joseph Guy; that his injury resulted from an independent, intervening, efficient cause, not reasonably foreseeable by appellant, the act of the Petrantis automobile running into the appellant’s electric light pole.

Generally, the question of proximate cause is for the jury. But when the facts are…