Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Leapley
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This suit was brought by the appellees against the appellant to recover damages for injury sustained by the female appellee who was a passenger on the road of the defendant. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This suit was brought by the appellees against the appellant to recover damages for injury sustained by the female appellee who was a passenger on the road of the defendant. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception. — The plaintiffs offered the two following prayers: 1. If the jury find that the plaintiff was a woman about four months advanced in pregnancy, and was, on the 16th day of February, 1884, travelling as a passenger on the train of the defendant from Washington to Tuscarora Station, with two children, one of them…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Mrs. Leapley, the plaintiff, was a passenger on the road of the defendant, from Washington City to a place in Frederick County, called Tuscarora in February, 1884. She was a large woman, weighing from 175 to 200 pounds, and in a state of pregnancy for about five months, she had with her two children, aged respectively two and five years, and several bundles. She had duly paid her fare to Tuscarora, which was a regular stopping place for the train of defendant, and where there was the ordinary platform for the entrance and exit of passengers on the defendant’s road.
The plaintiff gave evidence…
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