Slack v. Premier-Pabst Corp.

Layton, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

In support of the count of the declaration demurred to, the plaintiff invokes the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitur. Interpretations of the doctrine will be found in comparatively recent decisions of this Court in Edmanson v. Wilmington & P. Traction Co., 2 W. W. Harr. (32 Del.) 177, 120 A. 923; Starr v. Starr, 5 W. W. Harr. (35 Del.) 556, 170 A. 924, and Thompson v. Cooles, 7 W. W. Harr. (37 Del.) 83, 180 A. 522.

The rule, being one of evidence, of a limited and restricted scope, and not arbitrary or inexorable in its nature, is to be applied with…