Peterson v. Underwood

How courts have described this case

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• holding that res ipsa loquitur was unavailable because “plaintiff attempted to establish specific grounds of negligence”
• holding that “where plaintiff by his own evidence shows two or more equally likely causes of the injury, for only one of which defendant is responsible, plaintiff can not recover”
• holding that “where plaintiff by his own evidence shows two or more equally likely causes of the injury, for only one of which defendant is responsible, plaintiff can not recover”
• concluding that the passage of time between the negligent act and the injury rendered the inference of causation illogical and thus concluded that the trial court’s granting of summary judgment was proper
• stating that \[c]ausation in fact is concerned with the ... inquiry of whether defendant's conduct actually produced an injury\
• stating that “[c]ausation in fact is concerned with the . . . inquiry of whether defendant's conduct actually produced an injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).