Can a defendant be held liable for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bilyeu v. Standard Freight Lines, 182 Cal.App.2d 536, 6 Cal.Rptr. 65 (Cal. App. 1960):
'* * * where the defendant's negligent conduct is the stimulus for some other act which causes the injury, there is no break in the chain of events which would prevent his liability.' Henderson v. Balcom, 145 Cal.App.2d 36, 40, 301 P.2d 928, 931.
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