Lehman v. Baltimore Transit Co.

After a jury in the Baltimore City Court had rendered a substantial verdict in favor of a sixty-three year old pedestrian for injuries sustained by him as a result of alleged negligence on the part of one of the defendants, who was the other defendant’s employee, in the operation of a streetcar, the trial judge granted the defendants’ motion for a judgment, n.o.v., and the plaintiff has appealed.

At Walbrook Junction in Baltimore City, three streets converge. Clifton Avenue, fifty feet wide (all measurements hereafter mentioned will be approximate), runs almost due east and west. From a…