. The Street railway journal . amway Companyat Putnam, Conn., and with thelate Mr. Alfred T. Heyn inbuilding the Columbia (S. C.)Street Railway lines in 1880,and in rebuilding the Newburg Street Railway in 1887. Healso had charge of the building of the Hicks Street line inBrooklyn in 1888. Mr. Cole will have entire charge of themanagement of the Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield SpringsRailway, which extends from Oneonta to Mohawk, a distance of67 miles. The company will handle both a freight and passengerbusiness, and will open up a very rich country hitherto inacces-sible, particularly north
. The Street railway journal . amway Companyat Putnam, Conn., and with thelate Mr. Alfred T. Heyn inbuilding the Columbia (S. C.)Street Railway lines in 1880,and in rebuilding the Newburg Street Railway in 1887. Healso had charge of the building of the Hicks Street line inBrooklyn in 1888. Mr. Cole will have entire charge of themanagement of the Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield SpringsRailway, which extends from Oneonta to Mohawk, a distance of67 miles. The company will handle both a freight and passengerbusiness, and will open up a very rich country hitherto inacces-sible, particularly north from Cooperstown to the Mohawk-Valley. The road will be operated from one power house, anddistribution will be effected by means of the three-phase systemto sub-stations, of which there are five. The company will havetrack connections at Oneonta with the Delaware & Hudson andthe Ulster & Delaware; at Richfield Springs with the Delaware,Lackawanna & Western, and at Mohawk with the West Shoreand New York GEORGE M. COLE 968 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. LEGAL DEPARTMENT [Vol. XX. No. 24. CONDUCTED BY WILBUR LARREMORE OF THE NEW YORK BAR Res Ipsa Loquitur In Paynter vs. Bridgeton & M. Traction Company, decidedby the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey, in June, 1902(52 Atl., 367), it was held that a mere fall from a street car, with-out any evidence to show how the fall was occasioned, raises nopresumption of negligence on the part of the operators of the car;that the so-called doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is applicable onlywhen the thing shown speaks of the negligence of the defendant,not merely of the happening of the accident. This decisionwas by the highest court of New Jersey; it carefully considers theevidence in the case at bar and cites a large number of authoritiestouching the subject in the courts of New Jersey and other decision is well sustained on principle as well as by authority,and it may be commended as a typical illustration of the applica-ti
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