State Ex Rel. Chenoweth v. Baltimore Contracting Co.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company leases from the Northern Central Railway Company a railroad coal yard at the foot of Clinton Street in Baltimore City, which it uses for the transfer of coal from its cars to ships tied up at a pier adjacent to the yard. The yard, known as No. 2, is equipped with; railroad tracks, switches, a tipple, an elevated railway over which small hopper cars carry coal from the tipple to the ships, and other equipment designed to facilitate the transfer.

The whole yard is divided into a “gravity yard” and an “empty yard.” The tracks run generally east and west. Loaded…