Aiken v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• \One of the old and simple definitions of negligence is: 'There must be a duty on the defendant; a failure to perform that duty; and the failure to perform that duty must be the proximate cause of injury and damage to the plaintiff.' \
• ‘One of the old and simple definitions of negli- gence is: “There must be a duty on the defendant; a failure to perform that duty; and the failure to perform that duty must be the proximate cause of injury and damage to the plaintiff.” ’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).