CO · jury_instructions
CJI-Civ. 9:20
Cause — Concurrent Causes — Intervening Causes
The word “cause” means an act or failure to act that in natural and probable
sequence produced the claimed injury. It is a cause without which the claimed injury would
not have happened.
If more than one act or failure to act contributed to the claimed injury, then each
act or failure to act may have been a cause of the injury. A cause does not have to be the
only cause or the last or nearest cause. It is enough if the act or failure to act joins in a
natural and probable way with some other act or failure to act to cause some or all of the
claimed injury.
(One’s conduct is not a cause of another’s injuries, however, if, in order to bring
about such injuries, it was necessary that his or her conduct combine or join with an
intervening cause that also contributed to cause the injuries. An intervening cause is a
cause that would not have been reasonably foreseen by a reasonably careful person under
the same or similar circumstances.)
History
CJI-Civ. (2026), Colorado Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions. Dated 2026-02-25 by the committee page's "Revised 2/25/26".
Provenance
- Source
- www.coloradojudicial.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- civ-2026-02-25
- Content hash
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