...against the railway company, and a verdict returned in her favour by a jury was set aside on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury. In that case Mr Justice Hannen said railway companies " have done so much for the comfort and convenience...

...as a barrel of gunpowder in a rolling-mill, and two questions were raised on the argument, one being that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury, that at common law defendants would be liable for any fire caused by their engine, but that the statute...