The judge charged the jury in this case, "that the fact of this accident occurring was of itself presumptive evidence of negligence on the part of the defendants." If by this the judge is to be understood as saying that, in cases of this kind, evidence of the mere happening of an accident, resulting in injury to the plaintiff, without proof of any of the circumstances under which it occurred, establishes, prima facie, the charge of negligence, I am not prepared to ass…
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