TAYLOR v. ATLANTA GAS LIGHT CO.

36134.

93 Ga. App. 766 (1956)

92 S.E.2d 709

TAYLOR, by Next Friend, v. ATLANTA GAS LIGHT CO.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camp & Camp, for plaintiff in error.

Moise, Post & Gardner, contra.


TOWNSEND, J.

The facts of this case demand an application of the peculiarly perplexing rules of law relating to remote and superseding causes of injury. A superseding cause is an act of a third person or other force which by its intervention prevents the actor from being liable for harm to another which his antecedent negligence is a substantial factor in bringing about. An intervening force may be either a superseding or concurrent cause of injury, depending upon...

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