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FRIES v. BRAKENRIDGE

[No. 198, September Term, 1969.]

256 Md. 678 (1970)

261 A.2d 740

FRIES v. BRAKENRIDGE, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Kenney, with whom were Eugene A. Friedman and Burke, Gerber & Wilen on the brief, for appellant.

Frederick J. Green, Jr., with whom were Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green on the brief, for Charles P. Howard, Jr., one of the appellees. Robert K. Nead for Thomas Orvil Dando, another appellee. Submitted on brief by David D. Patton for Edward Kellogg Brakenridge, other appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, FINAN, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.

FINAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal which arises out of a chain automobile collision affords a good example of how not to start a day at the races.

On Saturday, April 3, 1965, at approximately 12:30 P.M., Mrs. Charlene L. Fries, appellant and plaintiff below, of Springfield, Virginia, a 42 year old housewife, was operating a Karmann Ghia automobile in a northerly direction on the Baltimore-Washington...

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