Central Railway Co. v. Peacock
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. The case is stated in -the opinion of the Court. Exception—Yhe plaintiff offered the two following prayers: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff was a passenger upon the defendant's car, and had gotten thereon at the corner of Lancaster street and Broadway, to ride to the corner of Preston and North streets, and had paid his fare, and that the conduct of the plaintiff, as such passenger, was becoming and proper, and…
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. The case is stated in -the opinion of the Court. Exception—Yhe plaintiff offered the two following prayers: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff was a passenger upon the defendant's car, and had gotten thereon at the corner of Lancaster street and Broadway, to ride to the corner of Preston and North streets, and had paid his fare, and that the conduct of the plaintiff, as such passenger, was becoming and proper, and that the driver and conductor of the said car used abusive and insulting language to the said plaintiff, and threatened…
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
This is a suit for personal injuries received by the appellee at the hands of the conductor and driver of the appellant’s street car, at a time when, the appellee contends, he was a passenger and as such entitled to the protection of the appellant from the violence of itemploye.
The questions in the case are, was there such evidence in the case of the appellee being a passenger of appellant when the assault was committed ; and of the conductor acting in the line of his duty and scope of his employment, as justified the Court in refusing the prayer of the appellant that there was no legally…
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- New Jersey Steamboat Co. v. BrockettSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Wright v. J. & S. WilcoxNew York Supreme Court · 1838
- Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad v. BaumIndiana Supreme Court · 1866
- Crocker v. New London, Willimantic & Palmer RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1855
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