Greenway v. Craft

At the close of the plaintiffs’ case the trial judge, R. B. Mathias, J., directed a verdict for the defendants, appellees here, who seem to have succeeded in persuading him that Larsen v. Romeo, 254 Md. 220 (1969), is controlling. They have adopted the same approach here but, as will be seen, we are rather less susceptible to their suasion. We have compared the facts in the case at bar with the facts related in Larsen; we think they present a horse of a somewhat different color. In our recital of those facts we shall, of course, be at all times mindful of the familiar rule that the evidence…