Bowman v. Baltimore & Ohio Rd.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $5,000.

About 11 a. m. on February 16, 1947, plaintiff was driving his automobile south approaching defendant’s double tracks, which crossed the highway at grade in an easterly and westerly direction. The day was clear but the road was slippery on account of a light snow.

Parallel to the road and east of it was an embankment of an abandoned interurban line, approximately 20 feet high extending to a point about 60 feet north of the north rail of the track. Within this 60 feet was a…