BROOKS v. CHILDRESS

[No. 153, October Term, 1950.]

198 Md. 1 (1951)

81 A.2d 47

BROOKS ET AL. v. CHILDRESS ET AL. (Ten Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 17, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., and Henry M. Decker, Jr., with whom were James W. Hughes and Paul C. Wolman on the brief, for appellants.

Clater W. Smith, with whom were E.D.E. Rollins, William B. Evans, and Clark, Thomsen & Smith on the brief for appellee, Arthur Wesley.

Theodore Sherbow, with whom were James J. Lindsay, Jr., and Omar D. Crothers, Jr., on the brief, for appellee, G.N. Childress, etc.

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


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

These appeals are from judgments for costs in favor of the appellees, defendants below, upon verdicts directed by the court.

On October 18, 1948, at about 3:45 P.M., the weather clear and the highways dry, Arthur Stanley Wesley, (Wesley), seventeen years of age, erroneously named in the amended declaration as Stanley Wesley, was operating a 1949 Pontiac Sedan, owned by his father, Arthur Wesley, one of the appellees...

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