Stockton v. Frey
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court.- This was an action upon the case, for the negligent driving and upsetting of a stage coach, by which the plaintiff was injured in his person and mind, brought by the appellee against the appellant, as owner of the coach, on the 13th August 1841. The defendant pleaded non cul, on which issue was joined. The verdict was against him. 1st Exception.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court.- This was an action upon the case, for the negligent driving and upsetting of a stage coach, by which the plaintiff was injured in his person and mind, brought by the appellee against the appellant, as owner of the coach, on the 13th August 1841. The defendant pleaded non cul, on which issue was joined. The verdict was against him. 1st Exception. At the trial of this cause, the plaintiff proved, that up to October 1839, he had been an active, enterprising man, of good constitution, health and temperate habits, and being called by business, left home,…
1Opinion of the CourtSpence, J.
This was an action instituted in Baltimore county court, by Ira Frey, for the recovery of damages against Lmcíus W. Stockton, the owner of a line of stage coaches, for carrying passengers from Hagerstown to Wheeling. The declaration alleges, that Mr. Frey was a passenger in the stage coach on the fifth day of October 1839, when, bjr the negligence, carelessness, unskilfulness and default of the defendant, his agents, and servants, the stage coach was upset; by reason of which, the plaintiff had his skull bone fractured and broken, and was otherwise greatly cut, bruised and wounded, insomuch…
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