State ex rel. Grice v. County Commissioners
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Kent County. This suit was instituted in the Circuit Court for Cecil County, whence, upon the suggestion and affidavit of the plaintiff, it was removed to the Circuit Court for Kent County, where it was tried. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The verdict and judgment being for the defendants, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Grason,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This action was brought by the children of Dr. Joseph P. Grice against the County Commissioners of Cecil County, to recover damages for the death of their father, who had fallen into Back Creek, in said county, and was drowned. The declaration alleges that “ one of the public roads in said county, to wit, the public road leading from Elkton to Bohemia Bridge, through the village of Chesapeake City, was negligently suffered, on or about the 6th day of August, in the year 1878, to be out of repair and unmended, so as not to be passable with safety,…
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