Schiller v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Ambler, J.). The appellant’s prayers were as follows: Appellant’s First Prayer. — The claimant, Charles Schiller, prays the court to instruct the jury that if they shall find from the evidence that said claimant sustained injuries while in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, a. body corporate, and in the course of his said employment, then the verdict of the jury must be for said claimant, and the jury is further…
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Ambler, J.). The appellant’s prayers were as follows: Appellant’s First Prayer. — The claimant, Charles Schiller, prays the court to instruct the jury that if they shall find from the evidence that said claimant sustained injuries while in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, a. body corporate, and in the course of his said employment, then the verdict of the jury must be for said claimant, and the jury is further instructed that they shall determine by their verdict whether the injuries, if the jury so find, here complained of created a…
1Opinion of the CourtAdkins, J.
The conceded facts in this case: are: as follows:
Charles Schiller, the: appellant, on the 21st day of December, 1917, sustained a hernia as a result of lifting a heavy cylinder head out of a pit while in the employ of the appellee. In February, 1920, when this case was tried in the Baltimore City Cburfc on appeal, he was still suffering from his injury. There is no dispute about the fact of the injury or that it occurred in the course of and grew out of his employment, and the liability of the appellee is admitted. The question raised is as to the permanency of the disability.
On March 14th,…
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