McLhinney v. Lansdell Corp. of Md.

The appellants, James C. McLhinney and his wife Shirley J. McLhinney, brought suit on July 27, 1967, in the Circuit Court for Howard County against John C. Hafner, Sr. and the Lansdell Corporation of Maryland (Lansdell) for alleged personal injuries and loss of consortium sustained as the result of a collision between a tractor trailer and a fire engine on which appellant James C. McLhinney was riding. At the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ case, the lower court granted the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict on the grounds that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a prima facie case of…