Pennsylvania Railroad v. Wachter
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Aiteac from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. This suit was brought to recover damages for-personal injuries sustained by the appellee by being run into by an engine of the appellant. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, for $4416, and judgment was entered accordingly. The defendant appealed.
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Aiteac from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. This suit was brought to recover damages for-personal injuries sustained by the appellee by being run into by an engine of the appellant. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, for $4416, and judgment was entered accordingly. The defendant appealed. The following are the prayers of the plaintiff, referred to in the opinion of the Court: 2. That if, under the pleadings and evidence, the jury shall find that the plaintiff, at the time of the injury complained of, if the jury shall find…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
We do not see on what grounds this action can be maintained. The appellee was at the time of the accident, and *398had been for at least eighteen months prior thereto, in the employment of the appellant. On the morning of the 16th of October, 1879, after having performed some work near Woodsborough, he, in company with Eyler, the foreman of the gang, and other repairmen who worked on that section of the appellant’s road, proceeded down the track in a hand-car, to surface up the track, when they were run into by an extra train, coming in an opposite direction, which threw the hand-car from the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Wonder v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1870
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. StrickerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1879
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875
3Cited by24 opinions
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- Northern Pacific Railroad v. HamblySupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Connelley v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1912
- Morris v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Yates v. McCullough Iron Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1888
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