Court Opinion

ID: 9810358
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:48:11.949914+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:52.381242
License: Public Domain

Walker, L,
concurring: There is evidence which I think tended to show that the iron shaft was not transported from Erie, Pa., to Lenoir, N. 0., with due diligence, and this was sufficient to carry the case to the jury without the necessity of taking judicial notice, even generally, of the distance between the two places and the time necessary for transportation, with a view of deciding that the time consumed was unreasonable and the delay therefore negligent, although judicial notice is not taken of the exact time required. Having some doubt as to whether we are authorized to determine the fact of unreasonable delay, under the circumstances of. this case, by invoking the doctrine of .judicial notice, I express no opinion on that point, but confine my assent to the conclusion of the Court only, that the nonsuit was improper, and for the reason I have already stated.
I do not mean to say that the doctrine of judicial notice is not correctly stated and applied by the Court, but that I prefer to rest my opinion of the case upon the other ground, which I am quite sure is a safe one, and especially as in either view a prima facie case is made for the plaintiff in the sense that the burden of proof (and not of the issue) is shifted to the defendant.