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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. DORCUS

[No. 456, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 251 (1967)

230 A.2d 656

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF FREDERICK COUNTY, ET AL. v. DORCUS, ETC., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Hamilton Whiteford, with whom were Samuel W. Barrick and Norman I. Broadwater on the brief, for appellants.

Leroy W. Preston, with whom were O'Connor & Preston, Edwin F. Nikirk, W. Jerome Offutt, and Irving M. Einbinder on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.

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

On June 23, 1965, in Frederick County, Maryland, Michael D. Dorcus was killed as the result of a collision between the vehicle he was driving on Dorcus Road and a truck owned by the Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County and driven by Guy E. Haines, an employee of the county, appellants. Dorcus' surviving wife, her two children by her as next friend, and she, as administratrix of her deceased husband's estate...

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