RITCHEY v. BALTO. & OHIO RR. CO.

[No. 105, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 69 (1961)

166 A.2d 912

RITCHEY, ETC., ET AL. v. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 11, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Whittington Whitlock, with whom was Gerald H. Cooper on the brief, for the appellants.

J. Sarsfield Sweeny and Fenton L. Martin, with whom were John S. Stanley and Hershey, Donaldson, Williams & Stanley on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The seven-year-old appellant was injured when his foot slipped under the wheels of a railroad freight car on which he had climbed. The accident occurred in Pennsylvania while the boy was visiting his grandmother. At the trial of his suit against the railroad brought in Baltimore, where he and his mother (his next friend) live, a verdict for the defendant was directed at the conclusion of the plaintiffs' case. Plaintiffs...

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