Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language *(Revised for Fall '25)

Resource 4 . 4 . 2 . 3 . 1

23 minutes

Adgar v. Dinsmore ("The Superseding Cause Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

What is a superseding cause and an intervening cause? Which one was Dinsmore in this case?

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