HALEY v. CITY OF BALTIMORE

[No. 20, October Term, 1956.]

211 Md. 269 (1956)

127 A.2d 371

HALEY ET AL. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE (Two Appeals In One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Sewell Lambdin for appellant, Iva Lee Haley.

Marvin Braiterman, with whom was Sheldon H. Braiterman on the brief, for appellant, Elizabeth Kappes.

F. Clifford Hane, Assistant City Solicitor of Baltimore, with whom were Thomas N. Biddison, City Solicitor, and Edwin Harlan, Deputy City Solicitor, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ., and HENDERSON, J., Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This is an appeal from summary judgments in favor of the appellee-defendant, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a municipal corporation. The appellants-plaintiffs, Iva Lee Haley and Elizabeth Kappes, were each injured, in separate accidents, while descending a column of concrete steps located in Preston Gardens, a public park in the City of Baltimore. These steps were a part of a concrete walk connecting two intersections...

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