Columbia Rio Grande Healthcare, L.P. v. Hawley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that charge error is “generally considered harmful if it relates to a contested, critical issue”
• concluding trial court abused its discretion by refusing to submit jury instruction “supported by the pleadings and evidence”
• explaining that a new and independent cause is a component of the proximate cause issue, not an affirmative defense
• stating that charge error “is generally considered harmful . . . if it relates to a contested, critical issue”
• concluding trial court abused its discretion by refusing to submit jury instruction “supported by the pleadings and evidence”
• concluding culpable acts and omissions of third parties were not superseding cause where they did not change risk created by defendant's actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).