Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. Green & Flinn, Inc.

Wolcott, Ch.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivering the opinion of the Court:

There are eighteen assignments of error. Rather than set them out in detail, it will be more convenient to dispose of them by stating the propositions of law which they raise and announcing our views thereon.

The propositions thus raised by the assignments of error are:(1) That the court below erred in refusing to instruct the jury in accordance with the eleventh prayer of the defendant below, as follows:

“Where the presumption of negligent construction or operation arises from the fact that the fire was set…