Lord Baltimore Filling Stations, Inc. v. Miller

Plaintiff (appellee) about 10 o’clock in the morning slipped on the ice while walking from the driveway of defendant’s (appellant’s) filling station to the gasoline pump. She was on defendant’s premises for the purpose of buying a can of gasoline. The weather was freezing, and there was some testimony that ice had formed at sundry places on the grounds of the station. At the conclusion of all the evidence, defendant requested the court to charge the jury that, if the plaintiff negligently and without due regard to her own safety walked on the ice and if such negligence on her part was the…