B & O RAILROAD CO. v. BOWEN

No. 1595, September Term, 1983.

60 Md. App. 299 (1984)

482 A.2d 921

THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. ROBERT L. BOWEN.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ransom J. Davis, Baltimore, with whom were H. Russell Smouse and Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner & Smouse, P.A., Baltimore, on the brief, for appellant.

Henry B. Ford, Baltimore, with whom was Risselle Rosenthal Fleisher, Baltimore, on the brief, for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN and LISS, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


MOYLAN, Judge.

In this case, we are called upon to decide the proper allocation of the burden of proof in a handicap discrimination case.

The appellant, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (B & O), appeals from the decision by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City affirming a ruling by the State Commission on Human Relations, dated June 9, 1981, that B & O had unlawfully discriminated against the appellee, Robert L. Bowen, by refusing to hire him as...

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