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WALKER v. VAIL

[No. 36, October Term, 1953.]

203 Md. 321 (1953)

101 A.2d 201

WALKER ET AL. v. VAIL, USE OF HIMSELF AND MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY (Two Appeals in One Record.)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 8, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Royall Tippett, Jr., with whom were Hinckley & Singley on the brief, for William F. Walker, Jr., appellant.

Clater W. Smith, with whom were Roszel C. Thomsen, M. King Hill, Jr., and Clark, Thomsen & Smith on the brief, for the Rowe Manufacturing Company, appellant.

Thomas G. Andrew for the appellee.

The cause was argued before SOBELOFF, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

SOBELOFF, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal brings up for review a judgment obtained by an injured electrical worker to his own use and to the use of the equitable plaintiff, the insurer of his employer who paid him compensation for the injuries. The judgment was against the manufacturer and installer of an overhead motor court or garage door, the mechanism of which failed, catapulting the worker and causing him to fall a distance of about 20 feet...

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