Balto. Ohio R. Co. v. Howard Co.

The question in this case is one of indemnity and arises in the following manner:

On the 13th of September, 1907, Mrs. Agnes Hill, widow of Alexander S. Hill, late of Baltimore County, deceased, recovered a judgment for six thousand dollars and costs for the death of her husband by reason of the alleged negligence of the County Commissioners in permitting a public highway to be so maintained as to be unsafe for public travel.

The judgment was paid by the County and this suit is brought by the County against the appellant corporation as the alleged actual wrongdoer to recover the amount it was…