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MORRELL v. WILLIAMS

[No. 62, September Term, 1976.]

279 Md. 497 (1976)

366 A.2d 1040

MORRIS A. MORRELL ET AL. v. SYLVIA HALL WILLIAMS ET AL. RAYNETTA RENEE FOWLKES v. MORRIS A. MORRELL

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Opinion Reaffirmed February 28, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Vecella and E. Dale Adkins, III, with whom were Anderson, Coe & King on the brief, for Morris A. Morrell, one of appellants. Steven A. Charles, with whom were E.B. Harris and Hardwick, Tripoda & Harris on the brief, for John Lee Worsham, other appellant.

I. Marshall Seidler, with whom were Henry Miller and Eccleston, Seidler & Miller on the brief, for Sylvia Hall Williams et al., appellees.

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

SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. LEVINE and ELDRIDGE, JJ., dissent in part and ELDRIDGE, J., filed an opinion dissenting in part, in which LEVINE, J., concurs, at page 509 infra. DIGGES, J., following reargument, concurs in part and dissents in part and filed an opinion at page 511 infra.

This wrongful death action has generated three appeals. A discussion of the facts and of the proceedings in the lower court is a necessary preliminary...

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