Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Belinski

Citations

• 106 Md. 452

Syllabus

<p>Liability of Master for Unsafe Appliances — Sufficiency of Evidence.</p> <p>Plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, was engaged in unloading timber from.a gondola car on a pier when his leg was broken by the falling out of a heavy piece of timber from the car. In an action to recover damages for the injury the evidence examined and held to be legally sufficient to go to the jury to show that the railway track where the work was being done was not even and was in an unsafe condition for such work, and that the defect must have been known by theldefendant.</p>