Assertion: presumption's effect | /r/HasProperty | to impose the duty
Facets:
value: on the railroad
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The opinion made the points (1) that the only effect of the statute was to impose on the railroad the duty of producing some evidence to the contrary, (2) that an inference may be supplied by law if there is a rational connection between the fact proved and the fact presumed, as long as the opposite party is not precluded from presenting his evidence to the contrary, and (3) that considerations of public policy arising from the character of the business justified the application in question.