GIANT FOOD, INC. v. ICE KING, INC.

No. 754 September Term, 1987.

74 Md. App. 183 (1988)

536 A.2d 1182

GIANT FOOD, INC. ET AL. v. ICE KING, INC. ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied June 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Spellbring (Robert J. Farley and O'Malley, Miles & Harrell on the brief) Upper Marlboro, for appellants.

Paul Mark Sandler (Ralph E. Wilson and Freishtat and Sandler, on the brief) Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and ALPERT, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

"Words," Justice Frankfurter said, "are clumsy tools, and it is very easy to cut one's fingers with them."1 The question we must answer in this appeal is whether the appellants cut their fingers on their own words.

A jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County (Fischer, J.) decided that Giant Food, Inc., and two of its employees, George Knippen and William Hendricks, had, by their words and actions, negligently...

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