SOUTHWEST METALS CO. v. GOMEZ

No. 4445.

4 F.2d 215 (1925)

SOUTHWEST METALS CO. v. GOMEZ.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 2, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Gale & Miller, of Prescott, Ariz., for plaintiff in error.

Struckmeyer, Jennings & Strouse and D. A. Fraser, all of Phœnix, Ariz., for defendant in error.

Before ROSS, HUNT, and RUDKIN, Circuit Judges.


RUDKIN, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

The objection to the complaint seems to be that it contains no direct averment that the accident caused the infection to the eye, or the subsequent blindness. No doubt, it is the better practice to plead ultimate facts and not evidence, but the plaintiff in error was not injured if the complaint gave it more information than it was justly entitled to. The general rule as to proximate cause applies here as in...

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