Saunders v. . R. R.

The plaintiff was injured while a passenger on the defendant's train en route from Roxboro to Durham. After entering the coach she took a vacant seat by a window that was then open and placed her arm on the window sill. Just before the train reached Helena, which was eight miles from Roxboro, the window fell on her arm and injured it.

At the trial the plaintiff testified that she neither touched the window nor did anything else to cause it to fall, but she offered no evidence that the window or its catches were defective or that the window had been raised by any of the defendant's employees.…