State v. Balto. O.R. Co.

The equitable plaintiffs are the widow and infant children of John A. Pachmayr, who was killed when a motor truck driven by him was struck by a backward moving engine and tender of the defendant railroad company at a street crossing in Masonville in the suburbs of Baltimore. A verdict for the defendant was directed at the close of the plaintiff's case on the ground of contributory negligence. An exception to that ruling, and two others to the exclusion of certain evidence, raise the questions to be decided on this appeal.

Pachmayr had been an employee of the defendant for eighteen years. At…