Baltimore Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co. v. Jamar
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court oi Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.) The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000, on which judgment was entered.
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Appeal from the Superior Court oi Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.) The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000, on which judgment was entered. Defendants 5th Prayer: If the jury shall find from the evidence that the injury complained of in this case was caused by the elevator falling upon him after it had been released from the truck upon which it had caught as testified to by Vincent Stewart, and shall further find that while said truck was caught under said elevator and before Peacock, the convict mentioned in the evidence of said Stewart, extricated the same from under the…
1Opinion of the CourtSchmucker, J.
The appellee sued the appellant company in the Superior Court of Baltimore City for damages for injuries sustained by him, while he was a convict in the Maryland Penitentiary, from the falling of an elevator attached to the shoe factory in that institution. The verdict and judgment were against the appellant and it appealed. The record contains but one bill of exceptions and that relates to the action of the Court upon the prayers.
There was evidence tending to prove the following state of facts. The appellant in 1889, contracted with the directors of the penitentiary, for the use of certain…
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