Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Simpson

Mrs. Simpson commenced her action against the Baltimore' & Ohio Railway -Co. for- alleged negligence in that the company-had, in the year 1899, changed the railroad bridge- across a stream, and substituted therefor á new bridge, lowering the structure so as to obstruct the flow of water at flood times under the bridge; and so changing the character of the bridge from an open frame work to one with solid sides, that it narrowed or contracted the space through which the water could flow under said Bridge, causing it to back, and turning it to one side of the stream, and thence across to the…