State ex rel. Miller v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

This suit was instituted by the appellant to recover damages for causing the death of Douglas Miller, a youth about sixteen years of age, who was killed by being run over by the cars of the appellee. The accident occurred at Keedysville, a station on the Washington County Branch of the appellee’s road, on the 1st day of March 18*78, at 7 o’clock in the morning.

Keedysville is a small village situated on the Boons-borough and Sharpsburg Turnpike, which forms the main .street of the town, and crosses the railroad at right angles near the station. At that place there is a siding parallel to the…