Ristaino v. Flannery

BISHOP, Judge.

Plaintiffs below, Mary Louise Ristaino, Carmen A. Fowler and Mary Fowler 1 appeal from a jury verdict entered in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (Goudy, J.) in favor of the appellee, Linda Ann Flannery. 2

Appellants present the Court with three issues:

I. Where the cause of an accident was admittedly appellee’s vehicle being on the wrong side of the center line of the road, did the trial court commit reversible error by instructing the jury that “the mere happening of an accident creates no presumption of negligence” when the jury was also instructed that appellee’s…