Novak v. Jeannette District Memorial Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that foreseeability of harm must be based on more than mere speculation
• refusing to allow a jury to speculate that, had a secondary driveway not been removed, an automobile accident would not have happened
• “A determination of legal causation ‘depends on whether the conduct has been so significant and important a cause that the defendants should be legally responsible.’ ”
• “Proximate cause, is a question of law, to be determined by the judge, and it must be established before the question of actual cause may be put to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).