GHASSEMIEH v. SCHAFER

No. 763, September Term, 1981.

52 Md. App. 31 (1982)

KAREN B. GHASSEMIEH ET AL. v. ELAINE SCHAFER.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert McComas, with whom were R. Roger Drechsler and Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green, P.A. on the brief, for appellants.

J. Thomas Caskey, with whom were Semmes, Bowen & Semmes on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, MOORE and MACDANIEL, JJ.


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

In this case, a 13-year-old girl in eighth grade pulled a chair away from her teacher who fell to the floor, hurting her back. Approximately one month less than three years later, the teacher filed a negligence action against her former pupil in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Sfekas, J.).1 From a judgment for the defendant, this appeal is taken. For the reasons stated herein, we shall...

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