Fowler v. Smith

This appeal involves an action brought by the individual plaintiff, John A. Fowler, and by his employer’s workmen’s compensation insurer, for personal injuries suffered by Fowler, and compensation paid him as a result thereof. He was injured, while attempting to walk across a public highway in Baltimore County, by a panel truck operated by the defendant, George W. Smith. Smith’s wife was joined with him as a defendant, but the trial court directed a verdict in her favor on the ground that there was no showing that she would be responsible under the doctrine of respondeat superior. In the view…