Uncapher v. Baltimore & Ohio Rd. Co.

The parties occupy the same rela tive positions here as in the courts below and they will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant, respectively.

Plaintiff makes ten assignments of error in his petition in error, but seems to place reliance in but two of them in his brief. This court cannot search the record for error that is not in some wise adverted to in the brief of the complaining party, notwithstanding the assignments contained in the petition in error. Errors not treated in the brief will be regarded as having been abandoned by the party who gave them birth.

Plaintiff devotes his brief…