TORTS-PROXIMATE CAUSE-INTERVENING CRIMINAL ACT

Defendant, in entering plaintiff\u27s house to repossess certain furniture sold under a contract granting the vendor the right to repossess, opened, and left open, a window which plaintiff had nailed shut. Subsequently a burglar entered plaintiff\u27s house and stole other goods belonging to plaintiff. Alleging negligence on defendant\u27s part, plaintiff sued and recovered for the value of the goods stolen, but, on appeal, it was held that there was not sufficient evidence of negligence to warrant the verdict, and that, admitting negligence, the alleged negligence was not, as a matter of law, the cause of plaintiff\u27s loss. Strong v. Granite Furniture Co. (Utah 1930) 294 Pac. 303