Alden v. . the New York Central Railroad Company

In regard to what has been called the negligence of railroad companies, in not providing safe axles for their cars, the only case in our own courts which professes to fix any rule, is that of Hegeman v. The Western Railroad Corporation (3 Kern., 9). The result of that case held, in substance, that the Company was responsible, both for the manufacturer's possessing the requisite skill, and for his actual exercise of that skill in each particular axle — the judgment in that case being against the Company for negligence, in not having discovered a flaw in the axle, which could not have been…