Holt v. Fountain

In the recent case of Whitman v. Mobile & O. R. Co., 217 Ala. 70, 114 So. 912, we quoted approvingly the following from the text of 29 Cyc. 528: “When the act and the injury are not known by common experience to be naturally and reasonably in sequence and the injury does not according to the ordinary course of events follow from the act, they are not Sufficiently connected to make the act a proximate cause.” To like effect is the language of this court in Western Ry. of Alabama v. Mutch, 97 Ala. 194, 11 So. 894, 21 L. R. A. 316, 38 Am. St. Rep. 179.

The expression approved in L. & N. R. Co. v.…