Norfolk & Western Railroad v. Hoover
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Defendant’s First Exception — Stated in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Defendant’s First Exception — Stated in the opinion of the Court. Defendant’s Second Exception. — The plaintiff at the close of the evidence offered the seven prayers following, and a sixth prayer, which was withdrawn: 1. That if the jury shall find from the evidence that the plaintiff was, during the spring or early summer of the year 1891, an employé of the defendants as an engineer or engineman, and working as such upon defendants’ cars or trains of cars, and that said defendants at that…
1Opinion of the CourtMgSherry, J.
This is an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries received by the appellee, an employé of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, as the result of alleged negligence on the part of his fellow-servants. The verdict and judgment were in his favor, and the Company has appealed. In the record there are three bills of exception upon which the questions to be considered arise. Two of these exceptions were reserved by the appellant and one by the appellee.
It appears that in May, 1891, an extra train of loaded freight cars was started from Shenandoah, Virginia, about eleven-thirty…
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