Mann v. Producer's Chemical Co.

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• holding that the plaintiff must demonstrate as part of her prima facie case proximate cause by showing that decedent relied on the defendant’s voluntarily assumed duty in his decision to cross the street
• holding that the plaintiff must demonstrate as part of her prima facie case proximate cause by showing that decedent relied on the defendant's voluntarily assumed duty in his decision to cross the street
• “[L]iability may be established when the facts and circumstances, in light of ordinary experience, reasonably suggest that the defendant’s negligence operated to produce the injury.”
• the fact to be inferred must be the only probable, not merely possible, conclusion that can be drawn otherwise the conclusion is a matter of speculation, surmise, and conjecture
• decedent did not regain consciousness after being struck by a car in an intersection and instead plaintiff had to rely on eyewitness accounts of the accident to establish whether decedent relied on defendant’s action in deciding to cross the street
• decedent did not regain consciousness after being struck by a car in an intersection and instead plaintiff had to rely on eyewitness accounts of the accident to establish whether decedent relied on defendant's action in deciding to cross the street

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).