Capps v. American Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “No general rule can be laid down as to the applicability of res ipsa loquitur. Its application depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of each individual case.”
• “The doctrine applies only where the physical cause of the injury and the attendant circumstances indicate such an unusual occurrence that in their very nature they carry a strong inherent probability of negligence . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).