Tompkins v. Cervantes

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• negligence in allowing psychotic patient to flee was simply a prior and remote condition giving rise to the occasion which made the injury possible, not the proximate cause of the injury, even though injury would not have occurred “but for” negligence in allowing him to flee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).