13 N.C. App. 593 - Regan v. Player’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““An eyent .which is a ‘but for’ cause of another event— that is,, a cause without which the second event would not havé,vtaken- place — is not, necessarily, the proximate cause of the second event. While one event cannot be the proximate cause of another if, had the first event not occurred, the second would have occurred anyway, Henderson v. Powell, 221 N.C. 239 , 19 S.E. 2d 876 , the reverse is not necessarily true. A ‘but for’ cause may be a remote event from which no injury to anyone could possibly have been foreseen. Foreseeability of some injury from an act or omission is a prerequisite to its being a proximate cause of the injury for which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages. Nance v. Parks, 266 N.C. 206 , 146 S.E. 2d 24 .” Ratliff v. Power Co., supra, at 614.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cooper-Harris, Inc. v. Escalle