 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1851 - 704 strani
...inculcated by the wise forecast of Judges and text writers, such as the following : "that the damage must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of." (2 Green. Ev. $ 256.) That even that qualification it is easier to lay down than to apply, for (as... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1852 - 722 strani
...be taken into consideration at all by the tribunal. . Mr. Greenleaf has said with more accuracy,* " the damage to be recovered must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of." But it is far easier to lay down a general proposition, than to apply it to a particular case. When... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1852 - 716 strani
...the direct pecuniary loss sustained by the party. Mr. Greenleaf, in his Treatise on Evidence, says, " The damage to be recovered must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of." (2 Greenl. Ev. § 256.) This proposition appears to be well settled by adjudications. (Armstrong v.... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1854 - 784 strani
...that they contained porter, that being the cheapest liquor in which the plaintiff' dealt.1 § 256. The damage to be recovered must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of. This rule is laid down in regard to special damage ; but it applies to all damage.2 Thus, where the... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1855 - 522 strani
...the redress of which the present form of action is the appropriate remedy, namely : " that the damage must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of;" it will prove not less fatal than does the former, to the plaintiff's right to recover. In the application... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1858 - 568 strani
...terms similar to those in Maine, and several authorities cited, the general result of which is, that " the damage to be recovered must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of:" and this rule is equally applicable to actions of tort as to actions upon contract. " Substantial damages... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1860 - 888 strani
...fact the basis for awarding to them damages, I would violate the established rule, that the damages to be recovered must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of — causa proximo non remota spectatur. The proximate, immediate cause of damage in this case would... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1860 - 716 strani
...and combinations of facts, arising and calling for their application. It is agreed that the damages must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the act complained of. Starting with these general rules, taken from elementary authors, and supported by adjudged cases,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1874 - 660 strani
...when merely remote. Greeuleaf, in the 2d volume of his Evidence, sec. 206, lays down the rule that "the damage, to be recovered, must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of." But this seems little more than the substitution of one form of general expression for another. Parsons,... | |
 | 1873 - 462 strani
...merely remote. Greenleaf , in the second volume of his Evidence, section 256, lays down the rule that "the damage to be recovered must always be the natural...and proximate consequence of the act complained of." But this seems little more than the substitution of one form of general expression for another. Parsons,... | |
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the test is' adds Chief Justice Beasley in Crater v. Binninger, 33 NJ Law (4 Vroom) 513, 518, 'that those results are proximate which the wrongdoer from his position must have contemplated as the probable consequence of his fraud or breach... 
