Mears v. McElfish
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County (Wagamah, J.). Action by Frances Hears, infant, by her nest friend, Martha Kephart, against Charles C. McElfish. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtUrner, J.
While the plaintiff, a girl seventeen years of age, was walking on the Bedford Road near Cumberland, about half past eight o’clock on the evening of Tune 20, T920, she was struck and injured by an automobile passing from the rear. It was raining at the time, and the plaintiff and a woman who accompanied her were sheltered by an umbrella. When the accident happened, they were on the right-hand side of the: road as they proceeded towards the city. A short time previously they had crossed from the left side of the road, because the path on which they had been walking there was muddy. The roadway…
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