Matthews v. Porter

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there can be “proximate concurring cause[s]” of an injury without eliminating the liability of the defendant
• intervening negligence will not excuse first wrongdoer if intervention was foreseeable; test is probable consequences reasonably to be anticipated, not character of subsequent event
• “The test is to be found in the probable consequences reasonably to be anticipated, and not in the number or exact character of events subsequently arising.”
• a case involving two separate collisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).