Eaton v. Louisville & NR Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an intervening cause may break the chain of causation if it is of an “independent origin, unassociated” with the underlying tortious conduct
• it is not necessary that precise form of injury should be anticipated as part of proximate cause
• precise form of injury need not be foreseen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).