WALLER v. KEENE

[No. 72, September Term, 1975.]

276 Md. 605 (1976)

349 A.2d 628

WALLER ET AL. v. KEENE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for reconsideration filed February 6, 1976.

Denied February 11, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Amicus Curiae brief filed by John W. Walter t/a Col-Mar Insurance Agency, R. Roger Drechsler and Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green on the brief.

Louis G. Close, Jr., with whom were Whiteford, Taylor, Preston, Trimble & Johnston on the brief, for Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Company, one of appellees. No brief filed on behalf of other appellees.

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


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

This case raises the narrow question whether a policy of workmen's compensation insurance, issued to an individual employer, affords protection to the same insured against claims of an employee of a subsequently formed partnership of which the insured is a member engaged in the same or a similar business.1 The Workmen's Compensation Commission (the Commission) held that it did; the Circuit...

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