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Summers v. Brown

Court of Appeals of Maryland
Feb 6, 1936
183 A. 246 (Md. 1936)

Opinion

[No. 9, January Term, 1936.]

Decided February 6th, 1936.

Taxicab Injuring Pedestrian — Questions for Jury — Permanent Injury.

Whether defendant was guilty of negligence, as having driven forward while plaintiff and others were passing him to a waiting street car, held for the jury.

Testimony by a physician that the absence of any change in an injury to plaintiff's nose in the preceding year showed the injury to be permanent justified an instruction as to a possible permanent injury to plaintiff.

Decided February 6th, 1936.

Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (DUKE BOND, J.).

Action by Ignatius Brown against T.B. Summers, Jr., trading as the General Taxicab Service. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.

The cause was argued before BOND, C.J., URNER, OFFUTT, PARKE, SLOAN, MITCHELL, and SHEHAN, JJ.

Samuel J. Aaron, with whom was Howard L. Aaron on the brief, for the appellant.

Ben B. Sellman, with whom was Samuel S. Levin on the brief, for the appellee.


Unreported cases.


Summaries of

Summers v. Brown

Court of Appeals of Maryland
Feb 6, 1936
183 A. 246 (Md. 1936)
Case details for

Summers v. Brown

Case Details

Full title:T.B. SUMMERS v . IGNATIUS BROWN

Court:Court of Appeals of Maryland

Date published: Feb 6, 1936

Citations

183 A. 246 (Md. 1936)
183 A. 246

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