St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Justice

Citations

• 80 Kan. 10
• 101 P. 469
• 1909 Kan. LEXIS 3

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Damages — Negligence—Proximate Cause. Negligence or other unintentional wrong does not furnish a foundation for a cause of action for damages unless it was the proximate cause of the injury sustained.</p> <p>2. -Proximate Cause. “The proximate cause of an injury is that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred.’’</p> <p>3. -Proximate and Remote ‘Causes. “If two distinct causes are successive and unrelated in their operation, one of them must be- the proximate and the other the remote cause. In such case, the law regards the proximate as the efficient and responsible cause, and disregards the remote.”</p>