State Ex Rel. Creasy v. Pennsylvania Railroad

After the decision of this court in Penn. R. Co. v. State, use of Brewer, 188 Md. 646, 53 A. 2d 562, 567, that case and seven other cases arising out of the same crossing accident at Fruitland, Maryland, on February 5, 1945, were consolidated and tried before the court and a jury, in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County. From judgments upon separate verdicts for the defendant in each case, the cases come here on appeal. The appellants’ chief contentions are that the trial court erred. (1) in rejecting certain prayers offered on behalf of the plaintiffs, (2) in granting certain prayers…