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CROMWELL v. RIPLEY

No. 360, September Term, 1970.

11 Md. App. 173 (1971)

273 A.2d 218

ELDRED A. CROMWELL v. MERLE L. RIPLEY, EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH P. RIPLEY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Gallagher for appellant.

William H. Clarke, with whom was Matthew J. Kastantin on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, ORTH, and MOYLAN, JJ.

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

An action brought against a dead man is a nullity. Burket v. Aldridge, Adm'r., 241 Md. 423, 430; Hunt v. Tague, 205 Md. 369, 378-79. This case was a farrago of questions from the initiation of the suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County to the denial of the court to vacate a judgment in favor of the appellee for costs. The questions arose...

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