Welch v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Boyce, J.,

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury:—This action was brought by Harry C. Welch, in his lifetime, against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant company. Subsequently the death of Harry C. Welch was suggested and William L. Welch, the administrator of the deceased, was admitted as party plaintiff. It is averred in the plaintiff’s declaration, in substance, that the tracks over which the defendant company operated its locomotives and trains of cars were laid across a…