Tall v. Baltimore Steam Packet Co.

There are several questions relating to rulings on the admissibility of evidence and one in regard to the granting of an instruction taking the case from the consideration of the jury, included in the only bill of exceptions which the record contains. This is an unusual and an erroneous way to present such essentially distinct propositions. The ruling on each question should form the subject of a separate exception. “ We * * are,” says this Court in Ellicott v. Martin, &c., 6 Md. 517, “of opinion that each distinct exception which embraces an independent proposition of law, should be signed…