State Ex Rel. Morrow v. Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Railway Co.

This is another railway crossing accident in the open country.

The suit was brought by Helen A. Morrow, the surviving widow of William J. Morrow, who was killed in attempting to cross the tracks of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Bailway Company, at Earleigh Heights Station, in Anne Arundel County.

It was a southbound train of two cars running between forty and fifty miles an hour. The deceased was approaching the crossing from the east in a truck, at a rate of speed variously estimated at from five to twelve miles an hour, and did not stop until the front wheels of the truck were about…