Baker v. Shettle

This case was tried in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County before a judge thereof for damages to a tractor-trailer and the loss of its use, resulting from a collision with an automobile. A verdict was rendered in favor of the defendant, and from judgment thereon the plaintiff appeals.

The defendant, John F. Shettle, who at the time of the accident was 21 years old, left his father’s home in Towson, on January 16, 1948, at about eight o’clock, driving his father’s Nash automobile, with his sister, who was 15 years old, to go to the Senator Theatre. At the place of the accident York Road is…