Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co. v. Twilley

Burke, J.,.delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is action for assault, false arrest and imprisonment, brought by Thomas H. Twilley against the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company. The defendant is a corporation and a common carrier of passengers between the town of Hurlock and Ocean City in the State of Maryland. On the afternoon of July 2ist, 1905, the plaintiff was a passenger on the cars of the defendant company on his way from Ocean City to his home in Cambridge, Dorchester County. The train stopped at Salisbury in Wicomico County. The plaintiff alighted from the train,…