Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. v. McDonnell ex rel. McDonnell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. - This is an appeal taken by the defendant below, from a judgment rendered against it in an action brought by the appellee to recover damages for a personal injury. The plaintiff, a child slightly over two years of age, ran in the way of a passing car of the defendant, on one of the streets of the City of Baltimore, and received the injury in question.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. - This is an appeal taken by the defendant below, from a judgment rendered against it in an action brought by the appellee to recover damages for a personal injury. The plaintiff, a child slightly over two years of age, ran in the way of a passing car of the defendant, on one of the streets of the City of Baltimore, and received the injury in question. First Exception. — The plaintiff, after producing evidence of the happening of the accident, introduced the testimony of a witness who stated that “ she did not know the rate of speed'at…
1Opinion of the CourtGriiASON, J.
At the trial of this case in the Court below, three exceptions were taken, the first to the admission in evidence of the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, regulating the speed of the appellant’s cars on the route on which the plaintiff was injured ; the second to the refusal of the Court to permit to be offered to the jury, the declaration of the father of the plaintiff, that the in*550jury to the plaintiff “was the result of an accident, for which the driver of the car was not to blame,-” and the third to the granting of the three first prayers of the plaintiff, and the…
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