Pikesville, Reisterstown & Emory Grove Railroad v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Ritchie, J.). The following prayers were offered at the trial: Plaintiffs’ 1st Prayer. — If the jury find that the defendant owned and operated an electric railroad between Pikesville and Emory Grove, Baltimore County, and that part of the structure of said railroad consisted of upright poles placed at certain intervals alongside, and for the length of the track of said railroad, and that the defendant maintained as part of…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Ritchie, J.). The following prayers were offered at the trial: Plaintiffs’ 1st Prayer. — If the jury find that the defendant owned and operated an electric railroad between Pikesville and Emory Grove, Baltimore County, and that part of the structure of said railroad consisted of upright poles placed at certain intervals alongside, and for the length of the track of said railroad, and that the defendant maintained as part of its railway structure a certain pole, No. 300, at a distance of two feet and one inch from the edge of the nearer…
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This suit was brought by the appellee, for the use of the father and mother of Frederick L. Russell, whose death it is alleged was caused by the negligence of the appellant.
Russell entered the service of the appellant on the 18th day of May as conductor on one of its cars, and on the same day, while attending to his duties, was killed by being struck by one of the poles that supported the overhead wires. The route of the car to which the deceased had been assigned was from OwingsMills to Emory Grove. Russell had already made two trips before the accident happened. The structure of the…
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