G.C. Murphy Co. v. Greer

KARWACKI, Judge.

On December 19,1985, Coy Greer, a retired dairy farmer, tripped and fell over an empty plastic carton in one of the aisles of the Ames Department Store in Frederick. The carton had been left there by the store’s employees. The fall fractured Mr. Greer’s hip. In a negligence action filed in the Circuit Court for Frederick County against appellant G.C. Murphy Co., the owner of Ames Department Store, appellee Coy Greer sought damages for his injury and was joined by his wife, the other appellee, in a claim for loss of consortium.

At the conclusion of the presentation of appellees’…