Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad v. Mitchell

The appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant in the Circuit Court for Harford County for damages for injuries inflicted on her, while walking along a much used public street in the city of Havre de Grace, by the falling of a hammer from an overhead bridge in course of construction on the appellant’s line of railway. From that judgment this appeal was taken. There is but one bill of exceptions in the record and that presents for our review only the'rulings of the Court below on the prayers offered at the close of the case.

The declaration contains two counts both of which aver that…