Ritchey v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

The seven-year-old appellant was injured when his foot slipped under the wheels of a railroad freight car on which he had climbed. The accident occurred in Pennsylvania while the boy was visiting his grandmother. At the trial of his suit against the railroad brought in Baltimore, where he and his mother (his next friend) live, a verdict for the defendant was directed at the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ case. Plaintiffs had served the defendant railroad with notice of intent to rely on foreign law, pursuant to Code (1957), Art. 35, Secs. 47-53, the Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act,…