Practice question
A wrongdoer argues that a later actor’s separate legal duty always makes that actor an efficient intervening cause. The evidence instead establishes both failures remained operative in the same foreseeable injury. Which is correct?
- Two legal duties can never coexist.
- A separate duty alone does not establish independence or efficient supersession.
- Every later breach necessarily erases earlier negligence.
- The original wrongdoer is immune if another owes any duty.
- Multiple wrongdoers necessarily eliminate causation.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 1174, 1759, 2176-2180: 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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