Peterson v. Wadley & Mount Vernon R.

An action for damages was brought against the railroad company by Lillie Peterson, who, while riding as a passenger upon the defendant’s train, received personal injuries, caused by the coach in which she was seated becoming derailed and overturned. The casualty was brought about by the breaking of the flange on one of the wheels of the car. The company undertook to show that the wheels under this car had been properly inspected on the morning of the day when the plaintiff’s injuries were received, and that the defect in the flange which broke w^s a latent imperfection which could not have…