Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in order to admit a state regulation into evidence, it must be either certified or authenticated
• “A duty to use care may arise from a contract, [or] from a statute .... ”
• proximate cause is found by looking for necessary causal connection between injury and negligent act
• evidence of custom in trade “may be admitted on the issue of the standard of care, but is not conclusive”
• more than one proximate cause may result in any harm suffered; proximate cause results from a sequence of events unbroken by a superseding cause.
• duty to use care arises under circumstances in which reasonable person should have known harm of risk imposed by failure to act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).