Williams v. State Ex Rel. Ellis

There is only one question in this case, but, as that is to the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, and as the evidence tending to prove the negligence of the defendant and its causal connection with the death of plaintiff’s decedent is wholly circumstantial, it is necessary to review all the facts with some particularity.

James P. Drury resided, with two daughters, on a small farm situate on the north side of the state road in St. Mary’s County, a little less than half a mile from Mechanicsville. On the evening of January 3rd, 1929, he was at Mechanics-ville. Wilson…