Benedetto v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

The issues which we are here requested to decide are whether the failure to file a deposition precludes the use of excerpts from the deposition in support of a motion for summary judgment; and whether the trial court, after being presented with such excerpts, properly granted summary judgment under the doctrine of assumption of risk.

On March 20, 1974, appellant, Aurelio P. Benedetto, brought an action in the Superior Court of Baltimore City against appellee, the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company. He alleged that he sustained personal injuries caused by appellee’s negligence on October 22,…