Legal Opinion

Conrad v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 24, 1908PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. Action by Homer Sheila Conrad against the Baltimore & Ohio Ráilroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

POEEENB A RGER, PRESIDENT:

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company complains of a judgment for $500.00, rendered against it and in favor of Homer Shelia Conrad, an infant, on a demurrer to evidence by the circuit court of Cabell county, in an action for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while playing on an unlocked, *177unfastened and unguarded turntable, owned and operated by the defendant, and located in a thickly settled portion of Central City, a place of about three thousand inhabitants, about 150 feet from one of the principal cross streets, and near grounds on which children were wont to…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Railroad Co. v. StoutSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  2. Union Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. Dobbins v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1897
  4. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. v. BeaversSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  5. Ryan v. TowarMichigan Supreme Court · 1901

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Adams v. Virginian Gasoline & Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1930
  2. Martino v. RotondiWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1922
  3. White v. Kanawha City Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1945
  4. Rine v. MorrisWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1925
  5. Buddy v. Union Terminal Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1918

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