JOECKEL v. BALTIMORE TRANSIT CO.

[No. 72, October Term, 1955.]

208 Md. 586 (1956)

119 A.2d 373

JOECKEL ET AL. v. THE BALTIMORE TRANSIT COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Skeen, Jr., with whom were Skeen, Wilson & Coughlin and William A. Skeen on the brief, for appellants.

Charles B. Reeves, Jr. and J. Nicholas Shriver, Jr., with whom was George P. Bowie on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

This is an appeal by Harry Joeckel and Ethel M. Joeckel, his wife, from a judgment for costs, rendered in an action for damages, in favor of the Baltimore Transit Company, appellee.

The trial judge granted the prayer of the appellee to take the case from the jury on the grounds that Ethel M. Joeckel, hereinafter designated as the appellant, was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law, and that it...

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