Allen v. State Ex Rel. Taetle

The appeal is from a judgment for damages from the death of the husband and father of the equitable plaintiffs in a collision of motor vehicles at a street crossing in Baltimore City. Code, art. 67, sec. 1 et seq.,, as amended by Laws 1929, ch. 570, sec. 3. And the questions pressed are whether the evidence offered was legally sufficient to support a finding of negligence on the defendants’ part causing the accident, and whether the credibility of one of the defendants could be impeached on cross-examination by showing his refusal to testify at a coroner’s inquest.

The question of negligence…