Scheffer v. Railroad Co.

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• holding that proximate cause of decedent’s death was decedent's own act of suicide
• finding that decedent's suicide was a superseding cause of his death because his \insanity\ was not the \natural or probable result of the negligence of the railway officials\
• stating that unforeseeable suicide breaks the chain of causation in a tort suit
• finding that decedent’s suicide was a superseding cause of his death because his “insanity” was not the “natural or probable result of the negligence of the railway officials”

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