MD. HOUSE OF CORRECTION v. JENKINS

[No. 205, September Term, 1961.]

228 Md. 146 (1962)

178 A.2d 892

MARYLAND HOUSE OF CORRECTION ET AL. v. JENKINS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 20, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Howard Holzer and Philip T. McCusker, Special Attorneys, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Kenney, Gallagher & Ricciuti on the brief, for appellants.

Julius G. Maurer, with whom was S. Alfred Mund on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, PRESCOTT, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

The question presented in this workmen's compensation case is whether the widow and children of an inmate of the Maryland House of Correction — who was accidentally killed while he was engaged as a day laborer outside of a correctional camp — were dependent on the prisoner at the time of death and as dependents entitled to compensation for his death.

Within the time allowed by law the claimant ...

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