STANDARD, ETC. v. RUCKERT TER. CORP.

[No. 136, October Term, 1948.]

193 Md. 20 (1949)

65 A.2d 304

STANDARD WHOLESALE PHOSPHATE & ACID WORKS, INC. v. RUKERT TERMINAL CORPORATION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 1, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse Slingluff, Jr., and Michael P. Crocker, for appellant.

Francis E. Pegram, Jr., with whom were Eckardt & Pegram on the brief, amici curiae.

W. Hamilton Whiteford and B. Conway Taylor, Jr., with whom were Due, Nickerson & Whiteford on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON, and MARKELL, JJ.


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

Ches Williams was hit by a grab bucket while working, in the hold of a vessel moored at the pier of Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Incorporated, in the employ of Rukert Terminals Corporation. He brought suit in the Baltimore City Court against Standard, alleging negligence on the part of its employees in the operation, upon the pier, of a power crane to which...

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