Myers v. Bright

I agree totally with the Court of Special Appeals that the Circuit Court for Frederick County erred when it, relying on the “antiquated version [of the boulevard rule], which gives favored drivers the right-of-way regardless of contributory negligence,” see Myers v. Bright, 327 Md. 395, 404, 609 A.2d 1182, 1186 (1992), granted the petitioner’s (Ida Patricia Myers’) motion for judgment. Bright v. Myers, 88 Md.App. 296, 305, 594 A.2d 1177, 1181 (1991). Because the boulevard rule is inapplicable to the facts sub judice, the intermediate appellate court correctly held that the issues of…