Hattaway v. Planters' Cotton Oil Co.

(after stating the facts as above). It devolved upon appellant to adduce testimony tending to show, not only that appellee was guilty of negligence, but that its negligence was the proximate cause of the injury he suffered. “Proximate cause” has been defined as “the direct cause, without which the injury would not have happened.” Railway Co. v. Averill, 136 S. W. 98; Railway Co. v. Harton, 36 Tex. Civ. App. 475, 81 S, W. 1236; Hilji v. Hettich, 95 Tex. 321, 67 S. W. 90; Jones v. Wlalker County Lumber Co., 162 S. W. 420; Oil Co. v. Edgmon, 155 S. W. 1012; Railway Co. v. Smith, 133 S. W. 482.…