Starks v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

LyNCh, Judge:

By various assignments of error, defendant questions the correctness of rulings upon plaintiffs motion, sustained, to set aside the verdict in its favor by direction of the trial court, and to award him a new trial. Likewise, plaintiff complains on various grounds of the court’s action in directing a verdict for defendant.

The declaration charged, and plaintiff undertook to prove, that by negligent and careless operation of its train defendant killed four valuable horses owned by him and then on defendant’s right of way. The accident occurred about 9:40 o’clock in*the evening of…