SCOTT v. WATSON

[Misc. No. 5, September Term, 1975.]

278 Md. 160 (1976)

359 A.2d 548

SCOTT, ETC. ET AL. v. WATSON, ETC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Dwight Pettit and Michael Bowen Mitchell, with whom was E. Thomas W. Stahl on the brief, for appellants.

Stanley B. Rohd, with whom were George D. Solter and Whiteford, Taylor, Preston, Trimble & Johnston on the brief, for appellees.

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


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

This case has come to us from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1974) Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article, § 12-601 et seq.; that Act authorizes us to answer questions of state law certified by (among others) a United States District Court "which may be determinative of the cause then pending...

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