BALTIMORE & POTOMAC R.R. v. LANDRIGAN

No. 71.

191 U.S. 461 (1903)

BALTIMORE & POTOMAC R.R. CO. v. LANDRIGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney and Mr. J. Spalding Flannery, with whom Mr. Wayne McVeagh was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error:

Mr. J.J. Darlington and Mr. Charles A. Douglass, with whom Mr. Joseph D. Wright was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The correctness of the ruling in denying the motion to instruct the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiffs in error depends upon the correctness of the ruling in granting or refusing the special instructions prayed. The principles embraced in them are but specifications of the legal propositions contained in the motion and upon which its soundness...

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