Hughes v. Atlantic City & Shore Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

The plaintiff, a passenger in a car of the defendant, was injured by fragments of glass from the explosion of an electric light bulb in the ceiling of the car. There was no proof of the 'cause of the explosion; the plaintiff went no *213further than to testify that “probably it was a weak bulb and the voltage might have run up on it, and of course it had a tendency to burst the globe.” The learned trial judge in view of the high degree of care required of a carrier of passengers told the jury that “when an accident of this kind happens to some of…