BENTON v. AQUARIUM, INC.

No. 531, September Term, 1984.

62 Md. App. 373 (1985)

489 A.2d 549

NORMAN BENTON v. THE AQUARIUM, INC., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice G. Pinderhughes, Baltimore, (David R. Cohan, and Cohan & Finkelstein, P.A., Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Gerard F. Miles, Baltimore, (Richard H. Lerch, and Lerch & Huesman, Baltimore, on brief), for appellees.

Argued before MOYLAN, WEANT and GARRITY, JJ.


GARRITY, Judge.

We are asked to determine whether the trial court properly granted a directed verdict on grounds that a dog bite victim had failed to show that the animal had vicious propensities, and that the victim had assumed the risk of being attacked after having been warned.

The appellant, Norman Benton, a truck driver for a local transit company, was dispatched to the premises of the Aquarium, Inc., a supplier of aquarium products in Baltimore City...

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