Legal Opinion
Potomac Edison Co. v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 25, 1935No. [No. 77, October Term, 1934.]PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOffutt, J.
This case was tried twice in the Circuit Court for Washington County. The first trial resulted in a judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant, which was reversed on appeal. State, use of Hoffman, v. Potomac Edison Co., 166 Md. 138, 170 A. 568. The second resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs, and this appeal is from the judgment on that verdict.
The case is this: Samuel Merle Hoffman, herein called Merle, a young man nineteen years of age, was electrocuted on September 19th, 1932, by coming too close to a heavily charged guy wire stretched across a public highway near Big Pool…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. State ex rel. HauerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1883
- Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. HogelandCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1886
- Taxicab Co. v. OttenritterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1926
- Hopper, McGaw & Co. v. KellyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1924
- Baltimore Traction Co. v. HelmsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1897
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- Potts v. Armour & Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1944
- Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. PostomCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
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