Swift & Co. v. Rutkowski

Me. Justice Gaby.

I am not prepared to assent to, or dissent from, what Judge Waterman writes as to proximate cause. I do not feel quite certain whether it may be properly held, that if by reason of having too much work upon his hands, the appellee was in a place where he would not have been if he had had sufficient help, and thereby came in the way of the swinging beef, that in such case, the want of help may be said to be the cause of his injury. If the railway locomotive set a station house on fire, and the station house set a tavern on fire, it is the locomotive that burns the tavern. Chi.…