 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 sider
...intervened of itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the misfortune, the other must be considered as too remote. In the present case we think there is...was carried to the cotton by first burning another building supplies no new force or power which caused the burning. Nor can the accidental circumstance... | |
 | 1873 - 462 sider
...judgment, and in delivering their opinion use the following language : " One of the most valuable of criteria furnished us by the authorities is, to ascertain...supplies no new force or power which caused the burning." That case was far stronger for the plaintiff than the one at bar is for the defendant. Powell v. Deverey,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 sider
...intervened of itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the misfortune, the other must be considered as too remote. In the present case we think there is...the fire which burned the plaintiff's cotton. The fuct that it was carried to the cotton by first burning another building supplies no new force or power... | |
 | 1873 - 680 sider
...judgment, and in delivering their opinion use the following language :—" One of the most valuable of criteria furnished us by the authorities is, to ascertain...supplies no new force or power which caused the burning." Tliat case was far stronger for the plaintiff than the one at liar is for the defendant. The case of... | |
 | 1873 - 464 sider
...of itself sufficient Яo stand as the cause of the. mischief, the »th-e miiat ha sпцр^нгйН, too remote. In the present case we think there is...supplies no new force or power which caused the burning." That case was far stronger for thCrplaintiff than the one at bar is for the defendant. ^Powell v. Deverey,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 866 sider
...cause has intervened between the fact accomplished and the alleged cause. If a new force or power lias intervened, of itself sufficient to stand as the cause...cotton. The fact that it was carried to the cotton u) lirst burning another mill, supplies no new force or power which caused the burning.'' That case... | |
 | William Barber - 1882 - 456 sider
...the property. " The explosion," remarks Mr. Justice Miller, who delivered the opinion of the Court, " undoubtedly produced or set in operation the fire...was carried to the cotton by first burning another building, supplies no new force or power which caused the burning. Nor can the accidental circumstance... | |
 | 1899 - 962 sider
...Intervened, of Itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the misfortune, the other must be considered as too remote. In the present case, we think there is...was carried to the cotton by first burning another building supplies no new force or power which caused the burning. Nor can the accidental circumstance... | |
 | 1892 - 1150 sider
...itself fired by the explosion. In this case it was held that the explosion undoubtedly produced or eet in operation the fire which burned the plaintiff's...was carried to the cotton by first burning another building supplies no new force or power which caused the burning. Nor can the accidental circumstance... | |
 | 1912 - 790 sider
...intervened of itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the misfortune, the other must be considered as too remote. In the present case we think there is no such new cause." These dicta related to the construction of a clause in a contract of insurance, not to causal relation... | |
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The explosion undoubtedly produced or set in operation the fire which burned the plaintiff's cotton. The fact that it was carried to the cotton by first burning another building supplies no new force or power which caused the burning. 
