CARMEN F. CHILCOTE ET UX.
v.
VON DER AHE VAN LINES ET AL.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 12, 1984.
June 12, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Alfred E. Clasing, III, Baltimore (William J. Blondell, Jr., and Blondell, Cannoles & Clasing, Chartered, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellants.
Henry E. Dugan, Jr., Baltimore, filed brief amicus curiae for Md. Trial Lawyers' Ass'n, Inc.
Edward S. Digges, Jr., Robert Dale Klein and Michael T. Wharton, Baltimore, filed brief amici curiae for Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of the U.S., Inc. and the Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc.; William H. Crabtree, Vice-President and Gen. Counsel, and Edward P. Good, Senior Atty., Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of the U.S., Inc., Detroit, Mich., and Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, of counsel.
E. Dale Adkins, III, Baltimore (Anderson, Coe & King, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellees.
Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
RODOWSKY, Judge.
On this appeal we address a fundamental question under the Maryland version of the Uniform Contribution Among Tort-Feasors Act (the Md. Act).1 Three tortfeasors are involved, M, a master, M's servant, S, and a third defendant, T. The plaintiffs and T settled before trial under a pro rata release. M and S went to trial and a jury has valued the plaintiffs' claims. Under the Md. Act and the terms of T's release the total...
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