State Ex Rel. Richardson v. Edgeworth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, because evidence was present indicating that the decedent acted under an irresistible impulse, it was not necessary to decide whether the Tate standard applied
• holding that, because evidence was present indicating that the dece dent acted under an irresistible impulse, it was not necessary to decide whether the Tate standard applied
• stating that “[r]ecovery in wrongful death actions has been denied in several cases where the decedent committed suicide, on the ground that the suicide was an unforeseeable, intervening cause of death”
• “the defendants’ intentional conduct is a legal cause of harm to plaintiffs if their individual acts were substantial factors in bring ing about the harm.”
• highlighting several cases that took this view of suicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).