State Ex Rel. Scruggs v. Baltimore Transit Co.

The action in the pending case was brought by the State of Maryland to the use of the surviving widow of William L. Scruggs against the Baltimore Transit Company, a corporate public carrier, and Nelson Mahone, defendants, to recover under the statute (Lord Campbell’s Act), for the alleged negligent death of the husband in a collision between the automobile truck of the carrier and an automobile driven by the defendant Nelson Ma-hone, at where the western terminus of Center Street enters the eastern side of Howard Street. The case was tried before a jury and resulted in a verdict against both…