 | United States. Supreme Court - 1920 - 1228 pages
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 224 pages
...itself snfficient to stand as the cause of the mischief, the other must be considered toa remote. Ii the present case we think there is no such new cause....the plaintiff's cotton. The fact that It was carried t<t the cotton by first burning another mill supplies no new force or power which caused the burning."... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce - 1918 - 1498 pages
...§§ 2593, 2771 herein. ed. The court, however, in its argu4300 § 2587 other words where an explosion produced or set in operation the fire which burned the plaintiff's cotton, and which was carried to the cotton by first burning another building, the loss is included in the... | |
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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. 
