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DRIVER v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY

[No. 404, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 75 (1967)

230 A.2d 321

DRIVER, ETC. v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 6, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob S. Levin and Frank B. Haskell, III, with whom were Mitchell, Clagett & Euwer and Applestein & Applestein on the brief for appellant.

Jerrold V. Powers, with whom were Sasscer, Clagett, Powers & Channing and Martin H. Freeman, and Hamilton & Hamilton and Thomas A. Flannery on the brief for appellee.

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

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

In this case, where a workman (Arthur L. Driver) was injured when the boom of a well-digging rig came into contact with an electric transmission line while he and a co-worker1 were operating the rig on the right of way of a power company (Potomac Electric Power Company), the question is whether the lower court erred in entering judgment as a matter of law in favor of the defendant against...

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