Stafford v. Zake

The appeal is by an owner of a motor truck from a judgment for damages for injuries to a little girl of seven years, struck as the truck was being driven up a street or alley where she was playing.

In Bruce Street, in Baltimore City, a street or alley running north from Lombard Street between Mount Street and Fulton Avenue, of 11.81 feet width in the bed, and with sidewalks of less than five feet each, the plaintiff below, Amelda Zake, was playing on a rear step of an ice struck stopped on the east side facing south, its front wheels partly against the northern end of the sidewalk on that…