RITTER v. PORTERA

No. 981, September Term, 1983.

59 Md. App. 65 (1984)

474 A.2d 556

PEGGY RITTER ET AL. v. SALVATORE ANTHONY PORTERA ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied September 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Harris, with whom was Larry L. Lockhart, Baltimore, on brief, for appellants.

M. King Hill, III, Towson, with whom were Joseph C. Wich, Jr. and Cook, Howard, Downes & Tracy, Towson, on brief, for appellees.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and GARRITY and BELL, JJ.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

The parties seem to agree that the appellant, Sherry Lee Schiller (Schiller),1 was guilty of contributory negligence when she started to perch herself on the hood of the motor vehicle of the appellee, Salvatore Anthony Portera (Portera),2 in order to ride "maybe fifty feet." The parties seem to agree that Portera, the operator of the vehicle, was primarily negligent in moving the car while...

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