Hanway v. B. O.R.R. Co.

In January, 1914, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company operated a regular passenger train between Aiken, in Cecil County, Maryland, a station on its Philadelphia branch, and Baltimore City. According to the schedule the train left Aiken for Baltimore at 6.45 o'clock in the morning, and returning in the evening, left Baltimore at 6.10 o'clock and arrived at Aiken at 7.40 P.M., where it remained over night. Sewell Station, a station between Aiken and Baltimore, was a run of about twenty-seven minutes from Aiken, and the train was due there at 7.12 A.M.

On the evening of January 3rd, 1914,…