DEP'T OF CORRECTION v. HARRIS

[No. 340, September Term, 1962.]

232 Md. 180 (1963)

192 A.2d 479

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION ET AL. v. HARRIS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Goldsborough, Jr., Special Attorney, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, J. Howard Holzer, Special Assistant Attorney General, and J. Raymond Buffington, Jr., Special Attorney, on the brief, for the appellants.

No brief and no appearance for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.


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

The appellee, a prisoner in the penitentiary, fell while descending the steps from the second to the first floor, en route from the sewing shop on the fourth floor, where he worked as a sewing machine operator, to the infirmary on the first floor, where he went daily for treatment of a physical condition unrelated in any way to his work. The Compensation Commission awarded compensation, and Judge Cardin, saying that...

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