QUILLIAN, J.
1. Complaint is made in the first special ground of the motion for a new trial of the following charge of the court: "Application of the maxim res ipsa loquitur — the thing speaks for itself — cannot have the effect of raising an inference that the defendant is negligent, or of relieving the plaintiff of his accustomed burden of proof. It is merely a rule of evidence, and the party who relies upon it simply says that from proof of certain...
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