COASTAL TANK LINES v. CARROLL

[No. 162, October Term, 1953.]

205 Md. 137 (1954)

106 A.2d 98

COASTAL TANK LINES, INC. v. CARROLL ET AL. (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse Slingluff, Jr., with whom were Michael P. Crocker and Piper & Marbury on the brief, for the appellant.

Eugene A. Alexander, III, for Gertrude Carroll.

J.B. Randol Carroll, with whom was Charles Markell, Jr., on the brief, for Richard M. Carroll, to his own use and to the use of the Home Insurance Company.

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


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

A tractor-trailer, owned by Coastal Tank Lines, Inc., the appellant, ran off the Governor Ritchie Highway near the intersection of Ordnance Road, striking a house owned by Richard M. Carroll and insured by the Home Insurance Company. Gertrude Carroll, another appellee, was sitting in the house. The accident followed the sudden entry into the boulevard of a car, a convertible...

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