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MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. v. HAIRSTON

[No. 55, October Term, 1950.]

196 Md. 595 (1951)

78 A.2d 190

MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY, INC. v. HAIRSTON

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 10, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W.T. Webb, with whom were Webb, Bounds, Travers & Adkins and William W. Travers on the brief, for the appellant.

No brief and no appearance for the appellee.

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

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

Olivia L. Hairston fell and broke her leg while shopping in a store of Montgomery Ward & Co., Incorporated in Salisbury on October 3, 1947. She recovered a judgment of $1,000 after trial before the court and a jury in Somerset County, to which county her case had been removed. The appellant contends that the case should have been taken from the jury, or that the court...

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