Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Herrmann

This is a suit for damages instituted in the People’s Court of Baltimore City by John O. Herrmann, Jr., an infant, by his father and next friend, John O. Herrmann, Sr., against Montgomery Ward & Company. Plaintiff claimed that on September 6, 1946, when he was with his mother in defendant’s store on South Monroe Street in Baltimore, one of defendant’s employees, who had been showing some rugs, threw them back in such a careless and negligent manner that they struck him and caused him to fall and cut his chin, thereby injuring him and causing him great pain and suffering. On April 11, 1947,…