Krodel v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Lively, President:

Plaintiff sues the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and Joseph Lane, one of its engineers, for personal injuries sustained when the automobile in which she was driving collided with defendant company’s locomotive at a highway crossing in the city of Point Pleasant. The circuit court set aside the verdict for $5000. in her favor and she brings error.

At the time of the -injury plaintiff was seventeen years old, unmarried, and, in company with a girl companion, was driving a Ford sedan on Poplar Street, at a speed variously estimated at from ten to twenty miles per hour; the…