G.C. MURPHY CO. v. GREER

No. 1295, September Term, 1987.

75 Md. App. 399 (1988)

541 A.2d 996

G.C. MURPHY CO., T/A MURPHY'S MART v. COY E. GREER, ET UX.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Clapp (Shoemaker, Horman & Clapp, P.A., on the brief), Frederick, for appellant.

John Wheeler Glenn (Donald J. Arnold, O'Connor, Preston & Glenn, P.A., Baltimore, Edwin F. Nikirk, II and Nikirk, Nikirk & Nikirk, Frederick, on the brief), for appellees.

Argued before WILNER, BLOOM and KARWACKI, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

On December 19, 1985, Coy Greer, a retired dairy farmer, tripped and fell over an empty plastic carton in one of the aisles of the Ames Department Store in Frederick. The carton had been left there by the store's employees. The fall fractured Mr. Greer's hip. In a negligence action filed in the Circuit Court for Frederick County against appellant G.C. Murphy Co., the owner of Ames Department Store, appellee Coy Greer sought damages for his injury...

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