intervening agency

intervening agency
To render an original wrong a remote cause, an "intervening agency" must be independent of such wrong, adequate to produce the injury, so interrupting the natural sequence of events as to produce a result different from what would have been produced, and one that could not have been reasonably expected from the original wrong.
An independent "intervening agency" which will protect the original wrongdoer must be the efficient cause of the injury of which complaint is made, and not a negligent act or omission of such agency concurring with or succeeding the original negligence permitted by the original wrongdoer to continue and which in the natural course of events results in such injury. In short, the result prevented by the intervening agency must be the injury complained of, and not the requital for that injury. Swanson v. Slagal, 212 Ind. 394, 8 N.E.2d 993, 1000.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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