SUBSEQUENT INJURY FUND v. CHAPMAN

No. 293, September Term, 1970.

11 Md. App. 369 (1971)

274 A.2d 870

SUBSEQUENT INJURY FUND v. KATHERINE E. CHAPMAN, WIDOW OF HENRY BERNARD CHAPMAN, DECEASED.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert A. Levin, with whom was William H. Kable on the brief, for appellant.

Maurice J. Pressman, with whom was David M. Brenner on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON and THOMPSON, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal in a Workmen's Compensation case presents the question whether an award for permanent total disability payable out of the Subsequent Injury Fund survives to a widow upon the death of her claimant husband from a cause not related to the accident which caused the total disability.

The pertinent facts are these: A jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City found that Henry Chapman, the deceased...

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