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CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. LOCKE

[No. 187, September Term, 1957.]

216 Md. 149 (1958)

140 A.2d 161

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. LOCKE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 25, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blanche G. Wahl, Assistant City Solicitor of Baltimore, with whom were Thomas N. Biddison, City Solicitor, Hugo A. Ricciuti, Deputy City Solicitor, and F. Clifford Hane, Assistant City Solicitor, on the brief, for the appellant.

Submitted on brief by S. Herbert Harris, Harry Harris and Melvin J. Sykes for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and CARTER, J., Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

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

The plaintiff below, appellee here, recovered judgments of $39,000 against the City and one Matthews for personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision. The City appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence of its primary negligence, the refusal of its prayer on the point of contributory negligence, and the admission of certain evidence as to its actions subsequent to the accident.

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