BURKE v. WILLIAMS

[No. 426, September Term, 1965.]

244 Md. 154 (1966)

223 A.2d 187

BURKE v. WILLIAMS, ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry E. Weil for appellant.

Melvin D. Hill, with whom were West & Venables on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


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

In this action to recover damages for the injuries Rannie Alvin Burke sustained when he fell into an excavation under a board walkway leading into the partially constructed house that James E. Williams, a general contractor, was building for himself and wife in Oxon Hill, the Circuit Court for Prince George's County directed a verdict for the defendants at the conclusion of the case for the plaintiff. The granting of...

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