Burke v. Williams

In this action to recover damages for the injuries Rannie Alvin Burke sustained when he fell into an excavation under a board walkway leading into the partially constructed house that James E. Williams, a general contractor, was building for himself and wife in Oxon Hill, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County directed a verdict for the defendants at the conclusion of the case for the plaintiff. The granting of the motion, from which the appeal was taken, was based on the premise that the plaintiff failed to show that the defendants were guilty of primary negligence, and, assuming a…