NEGLIGENCE - PROXIMATE CAUSE - INTERVENING ACT OF A CHILD

Authors

Stanton J. Schuman, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Defendant's truck was overloaded with unslaked lime and a piece which fell off was picked up by the child plaintiff, who put the lime in a bucket of damp earth which he was carrying. In the resulting explosion plaintiff lost one eye and injured the other. Held, the intervening act of a person over whom the defendant had no control broke the chain of causation. Leoni v. Reinhard, 327 Pa. 391, 194 A. 490 (1937).

Recommended Citation

Stanton J. Schuman, NEGLIGENCE - PROXIMATE CAUSE - INTERVENING ACT OF A CHILD, 37 Mich. L. Rev. 148 (1938).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol37/iss1/18