California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Schrimscher v. Bryson, 130 Cal.Rptr. 125, 58 Cal.App.3d 660 (Cal. App. 1976):
The general test of whether an independent intervening act, which operates to produce an injury, breaks the chain of causation is the foreseeability of that act. (Custodio v. Bauer, 251 Cal.App.2d 303, 59 Cal.Rptr. 463.)
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