Hill v. Edmonds
Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division
26 A.D.2d 554 (1966)
Relevant factsFree
A truck owner (defendant) left an unlit truck parked in the middle of a road at night, and a car later crashed into it; a passenger in the car (plaintiff) sued the truck owner for negligence, but the trial court concluded the car's own driver had been negligent and dismissed the passenger's complaint against the truck owner entirely, and the passenger appealed.
IssueFree
Whether, when separate acts of negligence combine to directly produce a single harm, each negligent actor may be held liable even though each act alone might not have caused the harm.