State ex rel. Coughlan v. Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Ceoss Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The action in this case was brought in the name of the State to the use of Mary Coughlan against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, to the September Term, 1861, of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to recover damages for the killing of her child, Peter Bannon.
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Ceoss Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The action in this case was brought in the name of the State to the use of Mary Coughlan against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, to the September Term, 1861, of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to recover damages for the killing of her child, Peter Bannon. The declaration alleges that the said Peter was wounded and injured on the 13th of October, 1860, by the wrongful act, neglect or default of the said Company’s agents while engaged by the authority and direction of the said Company in the management and use of their…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, C. J.
These are cross appeals, in an action instituted under the 1st and 2nd Sections of Article 65, of the Code, by the State, for the use of a widowed mother, whoso son was killed, under the circumstances detailed in the bill of exceptions.
After evidence offered by both parties, a series of prayers was submitted by each, all of which were rejected and others *100given, by the Court instead thereof, to-which rejection, and the instructions given, the plaintiff and defendants severally excepted.
The counsel of the defendants, having filed in these causes a declaration in writing, that in the event of an…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road v. WorthingtonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1864
- Keech v. Baltimore & Washington Rail RoadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1861
- Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road v. LambornCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1858
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- McMahon v. Northern Central Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1874
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