Hotel Dempsey Company v. Miller

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Ground 1 of the amended motion for a new trial contends that the following charge of the court was error: “I charge you that where an event is unusual and extraordinary in its nature, and you find there is nothing to indicate an independent efficient cause, but the peculiar character of the evejit is sufficient within itself to indicate that it must have been brought about by negli- . gence upon the part of someone, and where the most reasonable and probable inference that can be rationally drawn from the happening of such an event is that it would not and…