Bell v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

The defendant in this case rested on -the plaintiff’s evidence and asked the judge * to rule that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a finding of negligence.

The evidence was in substance this. The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s trains running “express” from Bridgewater to Brockton, when “without any warning or whistle *409or anything,” it came to a sudden stop, and after a few minutes proceeded on its way. Before the stop the plaintiff had been sitting with her husband at her side. She testified that she “was just…