State ex rel. Bacon v. Baltimore & Potomac Railroad

This suit was brought to recover damages for the death of George Bacon, a colored man, who was struck and killed by an engine on the road of the defendant, about 10 o’clock at night of the 6th of September, 1819; the accident being alleged to have occurred by the negligence of the employés of the defendant.

At the trial in the Court below, after all the testimony was in, both for plaintiff and defendant, prayers for instruction were offered by the plaintiff, but which were rejected; and the Court, at the instance of the defendant, instructed the jury, “that the plaintiff was not.entitled to…