Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Leasure

This is an appeal from a judgment for $14,000, entered by the court after the plaintiff filed a remittitur of $3,500, as directed by the court, from a jury verdict. The case arose out of an accident in Cumberland, in which a pedestrian was struck by a “shifter” backing over a railroad grade crossing. The declaration alleged negligence on the part of the railroad company, in the operation of the shifter at an excessive rate of speed, lack of warning, failure to maintain a proper lookout, and failure to stop promptly after striking the plaintiff.

The scene of the accident was the Baltimore…