State Ex Rel. Biggs v. Mayor of Baltimore City
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. (Duffy, I.) The facts are stated, in the opinion of the Court. The cause was argued before Boyd, O. I., Briscoe, Burke, Thomas, Pattison, Hrner, Stockbktdge and Constable, JJ.
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
This action was brought for the use of the widow and the infant children of one Albert Biggs, deceased, ag’ainst the defendant, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to recover damages for his death, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, in permitting: one of its public streets or highways, called Bush street, at the point, where it adjoins what is known, as the Bush Street Dock, to be and remain in an unsafe and dangerous condition for public travel.
The amended declaration, and the one upon which the case was tried avers, in substance, .that it. was the duty of…
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