Pennsylvania Railroad v. Cecil
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County (Keedy, J.). Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer,. — The plaintiff‘by his counsel prays the Court to instruct the jury that if they shall find from the evidence that on the 11th day of December, 1906, the plaintiff Avas employed as a brakeman by the George’s Creek and Cumberland Railroad Company and that said Railroad Company had certain traffic arrangements Avith the defendant company under which the former had certain running rights to…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County (Keedy, J.). Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer,. — The plaintiff‘by his counsel prays the Court to instruct the jury that if they shall find from the evidence that on the 11th day of December, 1906, the plaintiff Avas employed as a brakeman by the George’s Creek and Cumberland Railroad Company and that said Railroad Company had certain traffic arrangements Avith the defendant company under which the former had certain running rights to and into the State line yards of the defendant near Ellerslie and that by virtue of such running rights the train and…
1Opinion of the CourtPearce, J.
This suit was brought by the appellee to recover damages for an injury occasioned by the alleged negligence of the appellant, and the result was that the appellee was given a verdict and judgment for $8,000.
The principal facts of the case are these:
The plaintiff, Prank Cecil, on December 12th, 1906, being then a little over nineteen years of age, was in the service of the George’s Creek and Cumberland Railroad Company as a brakeman upon a train of coal cars, and had been so employed for about five weeks previously. He had been manumitted by his father, and' authorized to contract for himself,…
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