CONSOL. MECH. CONTRACTORS v. BALL

[No. 45, September Term, 1971.]

263 Md. 328 (1971)

283 A.2d 154

CONSOLIDATED MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS, INC. v. BALL ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Nickerson for appellant.

Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., with whom were A. Harold DuBois, A. Freeborn Brown and Lawrence S. Lanahan on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.


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

In November 1966 Harlin Ball fell into a hole and because he was hurt he and his wife sued the appellant (Mechanical). The case was tried in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County before Haile, J., and a jury early in November 1970. The jury gave Ball $100,000; they gave Ball and his wife $20,000. Motions for judgment n.o.v. and for a new trial were denied. From the ensuing

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