Sieland v. Gallo

This is an appeal by Oscar M. Sieland, Charles G. Griffin and Leroy M. Griffin, plaintiffs below, appellants here, from judgments for costs in favor of the defendants, David T. Gallo and Douglas D. Clark, appellees here. The three cases were tried jointly before the trial judge and a jury.

The facts for the purpose of this opinion substantially follow. The appellant Leroy M. Griffin on August 9, 1948, in the afternoon, was driving his automobile in a rainstorm on the Philadelphia Road toward Baltimore, at a point about two miles south of White Marsh in Baltimore County. In his car were the…