Western Maryland Railroad v. Shivers

McSherry, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court., Thiá is a personal injury case. The appellee, who was travelling from Hagerstown to Unionbridge in one of the coaches of the appellant company, was seriously hurt by reason of the car suddenly leaving the rails, and, after running over the cross-ties for several hundred feet, plunging down a precipitous mountain declivity. The trial resulted in a verdict for the appellee, and upon that verdict a judgment was entered against the appellant. From that judgment this appeal was taken. The only questions which the bill of exceptions contained in…