CONNORS v. OAKS

No. 1237, September Term, 1993.

100 Md. App. 525 (1994)

642 A.2d 245

ANNA CONNORS, ET AL. v. WILLIE JAMES OAKS, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips P. O'Shaughnessy, Baltimore (Joseph A. Miklasz and Richard J. Gregson, on the brief), Glen Burnie, for appellants.

Paul D. Bekman, Daniel M. Clements, Scott R. Scherr and Israelson, Salsbury, Clements & Bekman, Baltimore, for amicus curiae, Maryland Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

Margaret Fonshell Ward (William J. Jackson, P.C. and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee, Oaks.

Charles E. Gallagher, Jr. (Neil J. MacDonald and DeCaro, Doran, Siciliano, Gallagher, Sonntag & DeBlasis, on the brief), Lanham, for appellee Giant Food Inc.

Sidney S. Campen, Jr. and Campen & Walsworth, P.A., Easton, on the brief, for appellee, State.

Argued before MOYLAN, ALPERT and WENNER, JJ.


WENNER, Judge.

Appellant, Anna Connors, was injured on 5 July 1989 when the van in which she was riding was struck by a car driven by appellee, Willie James Oaks (Oaks). Oaks lost control of his car due to a combination of his excessive speed and an inordinate amount of water that had accumulated on the roadway following a heavy rain. Anna Connors and her husband, Herbert Connors, who is an invalid, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County against...

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