Taylor v. Western Maryland Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the Western Maryland Railway Company, the appellee, in an action brought by W. Ralph Taylor, the appellant, to recover for personal injuries sustained by him and the destruction of his automobile, resulting from its collision with a locomotive of the defendant at one of its crossings near the Gity of Baltimore.

At the trial of the case, the court, at the conclusion of the plaintiffs evidence, directed a verdict for the defendant, first, because of a want of evidence legally sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to recover, and, second, because the plaintiff,…