Vinson v. Augusta Roofing & Metal Works

Were the defendant’s alleged acts of negli gence the proximate cause, or one of the concurring proximate causes, of the injuries complained of? The answer to this question is determinative of whether the general demurrer should have been sustained. Reid’s Branson on Instructions to Juries, Vol. 2, 130, § 335, quotes with approval the following definition of proximate cause in Cochran v. Kendrick, 43 Ga. App. 135, 142 (158 S. E. 57): “If in a given case the injuries complained of did not flow naturally and directly from the wrongful act or omission attributed to the defendant or could not…