United Railways & Electric Co. v. Fletcher

Schmucker, J.,

delivered the opinion of the .Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Baltimore City Court in favor of the appellee against the appellant for damages resulting from personal injuries. The plaintiff was injured, while standing on a public street near the car track, by coming in contact with the body of a conductor who was passing along the foot-board at the side of a moving open summer car.

At the close of the plaintiff’s testimony in the Court below the defendant offered a prayer taking the case away from the jury for the want of evidence legally sufficient to entitle the…