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MOATS v. STATE

[No. 104, September Term, 1957.]

215 Md. 49 (1957)

136 A.2d 757

MOATS v. STATE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 13, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Sewell Lamdin and William J. Dwyer for the appellant.

J. Howard Holzer, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, and U. Theodore Hayes and Ernest N. Cory, Jr., Special Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief, for the appellees.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.

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

The appellant, Moats, was committed to Rosewood State Training School (Rosewood), an agency of the State, on June 4, 1954, "as a minor without proper care and guardianship, for an indefinite period of time." Moats was then about sixteen and one-half years old. Several weeks later, while he was operating a wringer in the laundry of the institution, he was badly injured through his right arm becoming caught in the machine...

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