State v. B. O.R.R. Co.

On Sunday, August 15th, 1909, James H. Welch, a boy about fourteen years of age and the son of the equitable plaintiff, was run over and fatally injured by the tender of a locomotive of the defendant company which was backing along a switch on Wells Street at or near the foot of Byrd Street in the City of Baltimore.

The suit was brought in the name of the State for the use of the mother, Emma A. Welch, a widow, to recover damages for her son's death, which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence, the Court granted a…