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HARPER v. HIGGS

[No. 191, September Term, 1960.]

225 Md. 24 (1961)

169 A.2d 661

HARPER v. HIGGS ET VIR

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed May 4, 1961.

Denied May 8, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W.T. Webb and K. King Burnett, with whom were Webb & Travers on the brief, for the appellant.

James F. FitzGerald, with whom were Walter D. Webster and FitzGerald & FitzGerald on the brief, for the appellees, the plaintiffs.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.

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

If Conan Doyle had written this chapter of the Maryland Reports, he might have called it "The Case of the Completely Inattentive Women Drivers." The principal legal question presented is whether the jury should have been allowed to find out for themselves (as they were) a real culprit in the automobile accident case, or whether the judge should have peeked and told them how the...

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