Yellow Cab Co. v. Hicks

Yellow Cab Company and its driver, Charles Wilson, and Sinclair Operating Company, Inc., and its driver, John C. Carr, appeal from a judgment for personal injuries entered upon a jury’s verdict against all of them in favor of Hushell Hicks, to his own use and to the use of New Amsterdam Casualty Company, the subrogated workmen’s compensation insurer.

Hicks, just after noon on November 4, 1957, was driving a dump truck west on North Avenue in Baltimore City, using the lane next to the parking lane. While he was stopped waiting for a red light to change at North Avenue and Small-wood Street,…