Is there any case law that supports the argument that a plaintiff was injured as a result of an actionable wrong?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from White v. Gehricke, 2013 BCSC 377 (CanLII):
Notwithstanding the difficulty of assessing this evidence, it is necessary to unravel the different sources of injury. As stated in Blackwater v. Plint, 2005 SCC 58: 74. … Untangling the different sources of damage and loss may be nigh impossible. Yet the law requires that it be done, since at law a plaintiff is entitled only to be compensated for loss caused by the actionable wrong. It is the “essential purpose and most basic principle of tort law” that the plaintiff be placed in the position he or she would have been in had the tort not been committed: Athey v. Leonati, 1996 CanLII 183 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, at para. 32. [Emphasis in original.]
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