Practice question
A shop negligently causes an electrical fire. A visitor reasonably moves away from the flames and suffers proved injury in that ordinary response. No efficient independent cause appears. Which is best?
- Any voluntary movement necessarily supersedes.
- Leaving the flames makes all earlier conduct irrelevant.
- The shop is liable for every future event anywhere.
- The fire-generated response does not automatically break causation.
- Only the visitor’s decision can ever be causal.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 2176 and 2194: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Abrogar v. Cosmos Bottling Company, G.R. No. 164749, March 15, 2017, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html
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