Thompson v. County of Cook

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s failure to construct warning signs near tight curve on a highway where traffic accident occurred merely provided location for negligence of drunk driver
• holding that county’s failure to maintain a road sign was not proximate cause of car accident where plaintiff was hit by driver who was speeding, drunk, and evading police
• inadequate warning of curve in road was merely a condition; injury was caused by intoxicated speeding driver
• county’s failure to post warning sign at dangerous curve was condition, not legal cause, of injury where efficient intervening cause of death of passenger was recklessness of drunken driver
• county's failure to post warning sign at dangerous curve was condition, not legal cause, of injury where efficient intervening cause of death of passenger was recklessness of drunken driver
• “proximate cause is *** absent where the independent acts of a third person break the causal connection between the alleged original wrong and the injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).