Dallas v. Diegal

Mary Dallas, a child two years old at the time of the accident, was run over and injured by a bakery truck as it was being backed away from its parked position on the wrong side of a street or road in the outskirts of Baltimore City. By her father and next friend she sued the driver, John Diegal, and the owner, Capital Bakeries, Inc., for damages on the ground of the driver’s alleged negligence, and obtained a verdict of $1,200 from a jury in the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The trial judge granted the defendants’ motion for judgment n. o. v, and it is from this judgment that the…