Cambridge Iron & Metal Co. v. Hartman

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

Five Baltimore City firemen were injured in varying degrees while fighting a magnesium fire in a scrap metal yard owned by Cambridge Iron & Metal Company (Cambridge). The firemen 1 sued Cambridge in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. A jury, presided over by Judge David Ross, returned verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs in the aggregate sum of $618,000. Cambridge, in this Court, asserts that Judge Ross erred in refusing to direct a verdict in favor of Cambridge and in declining “to instruct the jury on opportunity to warn and a number of other legal issues.” The…