Reid v. Modern Roofing & Metal Works, Inc.

The plaintiff in error contends that his demurrer should have been sustained because the petition shows on its face “that the damage to the plaintiff’s car was the result of a negligent act of a third party, which negligent act intervened between the negligence of the defendant and the injury and Was in fact the proximate cause of the injury.” We do not agree that the petition shows this to be the case. Where a defendant’s negligence sets in operation other causal forces which are the direct, natural, and probable consequences of that negligence, he may be held liable for injuries caused by…