 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1246 pages
...a general rule, where the thing which causes the injury is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of events would not happen if he had used proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of a satisfactory... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1230 pages
...which causes the accident is exclusively controlled or managed by the carrier, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if those who have the control or management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1144 pages
...injury is shown to have been under the control and management of the defendant, and the occurrence is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if due care has been, exercised, the fact of injury itself will be deemed to afford sufficient evidence... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 676 pages
...injury is shown to have been under the control and management of the defendant, and the occurrence is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if due care has been exercised, the fact of injury itself will be deemed to afford sufficient evidence... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1066 pages
...PRESUMPTION. — If the cause of an injury to per* son or property is shown to be under the management of defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen If thoso having the management use proper care, it affords prima facie •videuce, in the abseuo* of explanation,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1034 pages
...Rep. 107. If the cause of an injury to person or property is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if those having the management use proper care, it affords prima facie evidence, In the absence of explanation,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 778 pages
...72. There is a class of cases where the thing causing the injury is shown to be in the control of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary...events does not happen, if reasonable care is used, that the courts, in the absence of explanation, held that the happening of the accident affords sufficient... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1902 - 988 pages
...As a general rule, where the tiling which causes injury is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of events would not happen if he had used proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of a satisfactory... | |
 | Fred P. Caldwell - Law - 1916 - 1250 pages
...instrumentality or thing that causes such injury or death is shown to be under the management of the defendant and the accident is such, as, in the ordinary course of events, does not happen by the use of ordinary care, it affords some evidence that the accident occurred because of the failure... | |
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More precisely, the doctrine res ipsa loquitur asserts that whenever a thing which produced an injury is shown to have been under the control and management of the defendant, and the occurrence is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen... 
