Firor v. Taylor
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Two appeals in one record from the Baltimore City Court (Elliott, J.). The following are the prayers in the case: Plcántiff’s 1st Prayer.- — “If the jury shall find from the evidence that the plaintiff was standing om the sidewalk at or near the corner of Fayette and St. Paul streets, in Baltimore City, and that he was exercising ordinary care, that is, such case as a reasonably prudent person would ordinarily exercise under like circumstances, and shall further find that a…
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Two appeals in one record from the Baltimore City Court (Elliott, J.). The following are the prayers in the case: Plcántiff’s 1st Prayer.- — “If the jury shall find from the evidence that the plaintiff was standing om the sidewalk at or near the corner of Fayette and St. Paul streets, in Baltimore City, and that he was exercising ordinary care, that is, such case as a reasonably prudent person would ordinarily exercise under like circumstances, and shall further find that a wagon belonging to, and in charge of an agent or servant of the defendant Howard 0. Firor, was driven along the street,…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, C. J.
I’he appellee sued the Pittsburg Valve Foundry Construction Company and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, together with the two appellants (Firor and Saxton) now before us, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him by being struck by beams or timbers which protruded over a sidewalk in Baltimore while being carried in a wagon through one of its streets. During the course of the trial verdicts were rendered in favor of the two corporations, but a verdict was also rendered against the two individual defendants, upon which a judgment was entered. They took separate appeals, which…
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