President of the Baltimore & Yorktown Turnpike Road v. Cason

This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury. The appellant is a corporation owning and operating a street passenger railway upon which cars drawn by horses are run from Holliday street, in Baltimore City, to Waverly, in Baltimore County. The appellee, in January, 1884, whilst riding on the front platform of one of the company's cars, fell or slipped off, and his foot was crushed by the rear wheel of the car passing over it. He instituted this suit to recover for that injury. At the trial in the Baltimore City Court the appellant asked the Court- to withdraw the case from the…