Baltimore Co. v. State, Use of Keenan

The widow and children and the administratrix of Joseph W. Keenan (who are referred to below collectively as the plaintiffs) brought suit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County against three defendants for damages for the wrongful death of Keenan. The defendants were Thomas A. Blosser, the owner and driver of an automobile in which Keenan was a guest passenger, and Baltimore County, Maryland, the owner of a street sweeper with which the Blosser car collided, and W. E. Ensor, an employee of the County, who was operating the sweeper. Keenan suffered a ruptured heart from the collision and…