Pass-on defense
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From 245 U.S. 531 - Southern Pacific Co. v. Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Co. · 1918Most cited · 101 citing opinions
The general tendency of the law, in regard to damages at least, is not to go beyond the first step. As it does not attribute remote consequences to a defendant so it holds him liable if proximately the plaintiff has suffered a loss. The plaintiffs suffered losses to the amount of the verdict when they paid. Their claim accrued at once in the theory of the law and it does not inquire into later events.