VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA v. YOUNG

[Misc. No. 5, September Term, 1973.]

272 Md. 201 (1974)

321 A.2d 737

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC. ET AL. v. YOUNG, INDIV. AND AS ADM'X OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES C. YOUNG ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laidler B. Mackall, with whom were Richard O. Cunningham, John M. Edsall, Scott R. Schoenfeld and Steptoe & Johnson, Herbert Rubin, Michael Hoenig and Herzfeld & Rubin, Hal C.B. Clagett and Sasscer, Clagett, Channing & Bucher on the brief, for petitioners.

John C. Joyce and F. Robert Troll, Jr., with whom were Donald L. Hoage and Duckett, Orem, Christie & Beckett on the brief, for respondents.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE and ELDRIDGE, JJ.


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

This matter reaches us via the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1974), § 12-601 et seq., of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article.1 The case is a wrongful death action, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by the mother and the widow of James C. Young who was killed in a 1971 automobile accident in Prince George...

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