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Commercial And Corporate [1995] ZASCA 44

Napier N.O. v Collett and Another (535/93)

Napier N.O. v Collett and Another (535/93) [1995] ZASCA 44; 1995 (3) SA 140 (AD); [1995] 2 All SA 457 (A) (30 March 1995)

Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
535/93
Judges
E M Grosskopf, Vivier, Eksteen, Van den Heever, Olivier

Appeal in a horse-insurance claim turned on causation. The court held the fatal anaesthetic, not the earlier accident, was the legal cause of death.

  • Insurance Causation
  • Proximate Cause
  • Bloodstock Policy
  • Contractual Interpretation
  • Insurance-causation
  • Proximate-cause
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