Raitt v. Johns Hopkins Hospital

On 31 August 1972 ANNA M. RAITT and HERMAN J. RAITT, her husband, appellants, filed a tort action in the Baltimore City Court against THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL and ANDREW C. W. MONTAGUE, M.D., appellees. The basis of the suit was medical malpractice. On 19 October appellees pleaded the general issue. On 17 November, at the suggestion of appellees, the case was removed to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Maryland Rule 542. On 20 January 1974 it came on for trial before a jury, and, at the close of the evidence offered by appellants, the court granted appellees’ motion for a directed…