Earp v. Phelps
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Comfi of Common Pleas of Baltimore City (Dui-ty, J.), to which Court the case had been removed from the Circuit Court for Howard County. The appellee, while riding on the lazy board of a hay wagon, in Howard County, by colliding with a telegraph pole planted in the turnpike, had his leg crushed, and was obliged to have it amputated.
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Appeal from the Comfi of Common Pleas of Baltimore City (Dui-ty, J.), to which Court the case had been removed from the Circuit Court for Howard County. The appellee, while riding on the lazy board of a hay wagon, in Howard County, by colliding with a telegraph pole planted in the turnpike, had his leg crushed, and was obliged to have it amputated. Suit was brought in Howard County against the County Commissioners and the telegraph company. ' The suit was removed'-to' the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, where a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $10,000.00. The…
1Opinion of the CourtUrner, J.
This appeal is from a judgment recovered against the appellants for injuries received by the appellee in colliding with a telegraph pole while he was riding on the lazy hoard of a wagon on a public highway. The sufficiency of the declaration was considered and sustained on a former appeal, Phelps v. Howard Co., 117 Md. 175. Upon the remanding of the case a general issue plea was filed, and a trial ensued' in the course of which a number of exceptions were reserved, including the question as to whether the evidence offered was legally sufficient to support the issue joined. The contrary theory…
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