Roeseke v. Pryor

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• noting that where defendant’s initial collision “set the stage for the multiple-vehicle pileup that followed,” and where the accident occurred at night on a highway with a 55 mph speed limit, it was foreseeable that other vehicles would become involved in the mishap
• subsequent act of third party does not break causál connection between defendant’s negligence and plaintiffs injury where the subsequent act was probable and foreseeable
• “Critical to the use of the past-recollection-recorded doctrine is that the testifying witness have ‘firsthand’ or personal knowledge of the events disclosed in the report.”
• subsequent act of third party does not break causal connection between defendant's negligence and plaintiff's injury where the subsequent act was probable and foreseeable

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