MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. ATHEY

[No. 109, September Term, 1961.]

227 Md. 312 (1962)

176 A.2d 766

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND ET AL. v. ATHEY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. McAuliffe, Jr., for appellants.

Robert C. Heeney, with whom were John F. McAuliffe, Philip M. Fairbanks and Fairbanks, Heeney & McAuliffe on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

Montgomery County is appealing from the affirmance by the Circuit Court of an award of the Workmen's Compensation Commission to a member of the County police force for temporary total disability resulting from tuberculosis, diagnosed in 1959, which the employee, George C. Athey, claimed and the Commission found he contracted in the early part of 1956 from contact with a tubercular prisoner.

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