SUMMERS v. BROWN, 170 Md. 695 (1936)

183 A. 246

T.B. SUMMERS v. IGNATIUS BROWN

[No. 9, January Term, 1936.]Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Decided February 6th, 1936.

Taxicab Injuring Pedestrian — Questions for Jury — Permanent Injury.

Whether defendant was guilty of negligence, as having driven forward while plaintiff and others were passing him to a waiting street car, held for the jury.

Testimony by a physician that the absence of any change in an injury to plaintiff’s nose in the preceding year showed the injury to be permanent justified an instruction as to a possible permanent injury to plaintiff.

Decided February 6th, 1936.

Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (DUKE BOND, J.).

Action by Ignatius Brown against T.B. Summers, Jr., trading as the General Taxicab Service. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.

The cause was argued before BOND, C.J., URNER, OFFUTT, PARKE, SLOAN, MITCHELL, and SHEHAN, JJ.

Samuel J. Aaron, with whom was Howard L. Aaron on the brief, for the appellant.

Ben B. Sellman, with whom was Samuel S. Levin on the brief, for the appellee.

BOND, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Unreported cases.

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