What is the test for a plaintiff to prove that he was not responsible for the injury he sustained in a motor vehicle accident?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Doyle v. Canadian Northern Railway Company, 1918 CanLII 198 (SK CA):
Holden v. Grand Trunk Ry. Co., 5 O.L.R. 301, was decided on the ground that “the injury happened in consequence of the deceased’s own neglect of orders * * * himself the author of the wrong he complained of”—Osler, J. A., p. 307.
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