Leikach v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. of Baltimore, Inc.

In Joffre v. Canada Dry, Inc., 222 Md. 1, we affirmed the action of the trial judge in directing a verdict for the bottler and the delicatessen store owner in a suit by a claimant who had suffered a severed Achilles tendon when a soda bottle exploded near her in the store. The claimant relied on res ipsa loquitur. In agreeing with the trial judge that the claimant had not shown a greater likelihood that her injury was caused by the negligence of the defendants than by some other cause, we said (at pp. 9-10) :

“The cases from other jurisdictions which have permitted the inference of negligence…