Evans v. Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co.

The record in this case presents for the consideration of the Court a suit for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, Edward S. Evans, as the result of a collision between a Ford machine which he was driving, and a train of the Baltimore, 'Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendant offered a prayer to withdraw the case from the consideration of the jury, upon the theory that no negligence of the defendant had been shown, sufficient to entitle the appellant to recover.

This prayer was rejected by the Court, 'and in lieu of it, at the…