217 W. Va. 552 - Sydenstricker v. Mohan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock · 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. · 173 W. Va. 335 - Orr v. Crowder · 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. · 193 W. Va. 229 - McDougal v. McCammon
Most-quoted passages
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“The function of an intervening cause is that of severing the causal connection between the original improper action and the damages. Our law recognizes that an intervening cause, in order to relieve a person charged with negligence in connection with an injury, must be a negligent act, or omission, which constitutes a new effective cause and operates independently of any other act, making it and it only, the proximate cause of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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