Stewart v. Hechinger Stores Company

WENNER, Judge.

Appellant, Rose D. Stewart, appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County entered in favor of appellee, Hechinger Stores Company (Hechingers). On appeal, appellant presents us with the following issues, which we have condensed and slightly reworded for both brevity and clarity:

I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in failing to exercise its power to revise the judgment and strike the jury’s decision that appellant was contributorily negligent.

II. Whether Maryland’s common law doctrine of contributory negligence should be replaced by pure…