Elkton Auto Sales Corporation v. State of Maryland

CHESNUT, District Judge.

On July 16, 1930, one George Bradford Ferry, while on the premises of the appellant in Elkton, Md., received accidental and fatal burns in consequence of a gasoline fire. His death having occurred a few days thereafter, his widow and minor children, then citizens of the state of Delaware, brought suit as equitable plaintiffs (now appellees) against the appellant, a Maryland corporation, to recover damages for his alleged negligent death. The suit was brought under the Maryland act (Bagby’s Annotated Code, article 67, commonly referred to as Lord Campbell’s Act), which…