Booth v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Lynch, Judge-.

For the négligent infliction of injuries by the defendant railroad, plaintiff brought this action, and recovered a judgment upon a verdict for $1,500.

The evidence being contradictory and conflicting, the case properly was submitted to the jury, with whose finding we can not interfere unless palpably wrong; and we do not so find it.' The only questions argued by counsel relate to the giving of instructions alleged to be erroneous. In order to understand and test the propriety or correctness of the instructions, only a brief analysis of such evidence is necessary.

At the time of…