Ventricelli v. Kinney System Rent A Car, Inc.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1978-11-02

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OPINION OF THE COURT Memorandum. Order of the Appellate Division affirmed, with costs. Proximate cause and foreseeability are relative terms, "nothing *952 more than a convenient formula for disposing of the case” (Prosser, Law of Torts [4th ed], § 43, p 267). In writing of the "orbit of the duty”, Chief Judge Cakdozo said "[t]he range of reasonable apprehens…

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