Hochschild, Kohn & Co. v. Murdoch

The owner and occupier of a department store in Baltimore City appeals in this case from a judgment for damages for injuries to a customer knocked down by one of the wings of a revolving door. The only exceptions pressed are to the trial court’s refusal of instructions to the jury that their verdict should be for the defendant because of a lack of any legally sufficient evidence of negligence causing the injury, because of a variance between the allegations of negligent cause and the facts adduced as proof of it, and because of contributory negligence on the plaintiff’s part.

The plaintiff, a…