Manning v. Baltimore Ohio R. R. Co.

Per Curiam,

James P. Manning, an automobile mechanic, brought this action in tort against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.; the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff, but the court entered judgment n. o. v. for defendant; this appeal followed.

Plaintiff went to defendant’s warehouse to receive and remove certain new automobiles consigned to his employer. In order to reach the cars which he was to take away, Manning was directed by an agent of defendant to walk through a lane between automobiles standing in rows on the warehouse floor; and while he was proceeding to do so one of the…