Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road v. Worthington
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from, the Superior Court of Baltimore City : This was an action brought by tbe appellee against tbe appellant, to recover damages for injuries sustained while riding as a passenger over tbe road of the appellant, on a train which was thrown from the track. The case is very fully stated in the opinions of the several Justices of this-. Court by whom the case was heard. The Court below erred in substituting its own instructions for those asked for by the defendants.
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Appeal from, the Superior Court of Baltimore City : This was an action brought by tbe appellee against tbe appellant, to recover damages for injuries sustained while riding as a passenger over tbe road of the appellant, on a train which was thrown from the track. The case is very fully stated in the opinions of the several Justices of this-. Court by whom the case was heard. The Court below erred in substituting its own instructions for those asked for by the defendants. The first inquiry is as to the difference between the two sets of instructions. The difference, it is contended, is this…
1Opinion of the Court
Bartol, J.,
delivered the following opinion, in which Cochran, J. concurred :
In my opinion the appéllants have no good cause to com-' plaiu of the ruling of the Superior Court in this case.
Nothing is better settled, than that a judgment will not be reversed on account of the rejection of prayers, even though correct in themselves, if the instructions given to the jury are correct, covering the whole case, and giving the law to the jury, as favorably for the appellant as he is entitled to ask. 3 Gill, 481, 482. 11 Md. Rep., 451. 14 Md. Rep., 444. 13 Peters, 191.
That rule seems to me to he…
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- Pettigrew v. BarnumCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1857
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