Butkus v. McClendon

This long, protracted case began on July 29, 1961. On that day the appellant Julia Butkus was driving her husband’s automobile across the Sinepuxent Bay Bridge leading into Ocean City, Maryland, when she became involved in a collision with a vehicle operated by the defendant-appellee John Monroe McClendon. She sued for personal injuries and medical expenses and her husband for damages to his automobile and loss of services. The Circuit Court for Dorchester County (Mace, J.) in a non jury trial entered judgment for the defendant.

The subject of this appeal is the alleged abuse of the trial…