Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad v. Tucker
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore County (Duxcax, J.). The following are the prayers which were offered in the ease and referred to in the opinion of the Court: Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer—If the jury find that the plaintiff was received and accepted by the defendant company upon one of its trains of cars as a passenger to be carried from Bel Air, one of its stations on its road to Baltimore City, the terminus of its road, for a reward to the defendant, then it became…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore County (Duxcax, J.). The following are the prayers which were offered in the ease and referred to in the opinion of the Court: Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer—If the jury find that the plaintiff was received and accepted by the defendant company upon one of its trains of cars as a passenger to be carried from Bel Air, one of its stations on its road to Baltimore City, the terminus of its road, for a reward to the defendant, then it became and was the duty of the defendant to exercise for the plaintiff’s safety during his trip to and arrival at said city,…
1Opinion of the CourtPearce, J.
This is an appeal by the defendant below from a judgment against it, rendered in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in an action brought to recover damages for an alleged assault and battery committed upon the plaintiff by the defendant’s servants, in charge of defendant’s train, upon which plaintiff had been carried as a passenger from Bel Air to Baltimore.
During the trial two exceptions were taken by the defendant, one .to the exclusion of evidence offered and one to the ruling on the prayers. The plaintiff, whose home was in Harford County, north of Bel Air, was a member of the 1st…
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