Joeckel v. Baltimore Transit Co.

This is an appeal by Harry Joeckel and Ethel M. Joeckel, his wife, from a judgment for costs, rendered in an action for damages, in favor of the Baltimore Transit Company, appellee.

The trial judge granted the prayer of the appellee to take the case from the jury on the grounds that Ethel M. Joeckel, hereinafter designated as the appellant, was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law, and that it was the duty of the appellant to continue to look to the left before reaching and entering upon the streetcar tracks, which was the real point of danger. The appellant contends that the…