Dame v. Laconia Car Co. Works

The facts appearing in the case disclose no error in the direction of a verdict for the defendants. In any permissible view of the evidence, the plaintiff leaves the cause of her intestate’s death wholly conjectural. Upon this vital point it is simply shown that he was found lying dead in a passway between the defendants’ office and one of their shops; that a heavy ladder, which had been put up against the shop some hours before and left unfastened, with its foot projecting into the passway some seven or eight feet, was lying on the ground near his body; that when he was so discovered “ it…