Legal Opinion

Chesapeake Beach Railway Co. v. Donahue

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided January 7, 1908PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (Merrick, J.), where there was a judgment for the plaintiff for $6,ooo.

1Opinion of the CourtSchmucker, J.

The appellee, Thomas Donahue, while walking along the railroad track of the appellant company in Prince George’s County was struck and injured by one of its trains. He sued the company in the Circuit Court of that county for damages’ resulting from his injury, and recovered the judgment from which the present appeal was taken.

The record contains eleven bills of exceptions of which eight relate to rulings on the admissibility of evidence, two to the Court’s action on the prayers and one to its refusal to grant a motion in the nature of a prayer asking the case be taken from the jury for want…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Railroad Company v. HoustonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. State ex rel. SavingtonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1889
  3. Stirling v. StirlingCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1885
  4. Western Maryland Railroad v. KehoeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1896
  5. State ex rel. Bacon v. Baltimore & Potomac RailroadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1882

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Carroll v. SpencerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1954
  2. Jackson v. Pennsylvania RailroadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1939
  3. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. State Ex Rel. WelchCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1911
  4. Montgomery Bus Lines, Inc. v. DiehlCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1930
  5. Catanzara Di Giorgio Co. v. F. W. Stock & SonsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1911

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