Nardone v. Underwood

Keating, Jr., J.,

by special assignment, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs below from the action of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in granting the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence on the ground that the plaintiffs were contributorily negligent.

On November 9, 1956, at 2 P. M., the plaintiff, Mrs. Nardone, was operating an automobile owned by her husband, Wilfred E. Nardone, in a southerly direction on U. S. Route 301 approaching the intersection with Holly Lane, in Charles County, Maryland. The…