R. & L. Transfer Co. v. State Ex Rel. Schmidt

Sloan, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the Court.

On June 6th, 1929, a hoy, Bertold Schmidt, aged seven years, and a girl, Elfreda Matzdorf, six months older, were killed in a collision with a truck of the R. & I.. Transfer Company at the intersection of an alloy with the west side of Caroline Street in Baltimore. Suits were brought in the name of the State, for the use of the respective fathers of the children. The Schmidt ease was tried before a jury, •-and, from tbe judgment on a verdict in favor of the plaintiff appellee, the defendants appealed. The Matzdorf case was submitted to the court…