Pierce v. CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE

Charles Pierce, the tort plaintiff, aggrieved when the trial court took from him the potential fruits of the jury’s verdict against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, by granting a' judgment notwithstanding the verdict on the ground of contributory negligence, appeals to us to reinstate the verdict.

One night near the end of October, 1957, on the way to cut the grass at the home of his shop foreman (he said it was desirable to cut grass at night because “it is nice and tender then”), Pierce alighted from a bus at a duly designated stop at the northeast corner of Thirty-second Street and…