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COOPER v. WICOMICO COUNTY

[No. 8, September Term, 1976.]

278 Md. 596 (1976)

366 A.2d 55

OLLIE RICHARD COOPER v. WICOMICO COUNTY, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don E. Richardson, with whom was Kenneth v. Heland on the brief, for appellant.

Theodore B. Cornblatt and Alfred M. Porth, with whom were Smith, Somerville & Case on the brief, for appellees.

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

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. LEVINE and ELDRIDGE, JJ., dissent and ELDRIDGE, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which LEVINE, J., concurs at page 604 infra.

We granted certiorari in this workmen's compensation case to determine whether a supplemental award of compensation to the appellant Cooper, which increased the amounts payable to him under a prior award for permanent total disability, unconstitutionally disturbed the contractual or...

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