6 N.C. App. 304 - Grimes v. Gibert’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1972
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Givens v. Sellars · Riddle v. Artis · Bryant v. Woodlief · Nance v. Parks · Clarke v. Holman
Most-quoted passages
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““Proximate cause is a cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and independent cause, produced the plaintiff’s injuries, and without which the injuries would not have occurred, and one from which a person of ordinary prudence could have reasonably foreseen that such a result, or some similar injurious result, was probable under the facts as they existed. (Citation omitted.) A proximate cause may involve an act or omission which does not immediately precede the injury or damage, and therefore, proximate cause and immediate cause are not synonymous. (Citation omitted.) There may be more than one proximate cause of an injury, and it is not required that the negligence of the defendant be the sole proximate cause of the injury or the last act of negligence in sequence of time in order to hold defendant liable therefor, it being sufficient if defendant’s negligence is one of the proximate causes. (Citation omitted.) Although foreseeability of injury is an essential element of proximate cause (citation omitted), the test of such foreseeability does not require that the tort-feasor should have been able to foresee the injury in the precise form in which it occurred. All that the plaintiff is required to prove on the question of foreseeability, in determining proximate cause, is that in the exercise of reasonable care the defendant might have foreseen that some injury would result from his act or omission, or that consequences of a generally injurious natur”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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