Carroll v. Hillendale Golf Club, Inc.

On July 17th, 1927, Robert Ward was a greenskeeper in the employ of the Hillendale Golf Club, Incorporated, the appellee, which had a golf course near Towson in Baltimore County. At the same time the appellant Charles E. Carroll, who sues by his father and next friend, Walter L. Carroll, was a caddy at the golf course. On the day mentioned the appellant and a companion named Herbert Gallagher were in the woods j ust off the sixth tee, hunting for lost golf balls, when, without any apparent reason and to their surprise, they were called to' by Ward, who had a shotgun in his hands, and on…