Kean v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. This action was originally instituted in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, and was thence removed, at the suggestión of the defendant, to the Circuit Court for Frederick County, where it was tried.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. This action was originally instituted in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, and was thence removed, at the suggestión of the defendant, to the Circuit Court for Frederick County, where it was tried. The appellant sought to recover for an injury which he sustained through the allegedfnegligence of the appellee, in being run over by its cars on the night of the 27th of July, 1879, while he was in the act of crossing the tracks of the defendant at the point where they intersect Williams street in the City of Cumberland. Plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
In the trial of this case in the Court below the matters in issue were submitted to the jury, and this Court is not required, by any ruling that was made, to review the facts of the case. We have only to deal with the legal propositions as we find them embodied in the prayers offered by the respective parties. And the legal propositions involved and really applicable to the case would seem to be few and simple, and such as have been announced by this Court in repeated decisions.
The action having been brought for the alleged negligence of the defendant, whereby the plaintiff was injured, the…
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