Burke v. Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railway Co.

The declaration in this case alleged that the defendant, the Maryland, Delaware and Yirginia, Railroad Company, as a common carrier of passengers, owned and operated a steam railway, and certain wharves connected therewith, from Love Point, in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, to Lewes, Delaware, and that in the conduct of its said business the defendant owned and used a pier or wharf at Love Point, where its boats made connection with its railroad, ato and from Baltimore,” and that on the 4th of September, 1914, while the plaintiff was lawfully on said pier, the defendant, in unloading one of…