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ALLGOOD v. MUELLER

No. 146, September Term, 1985.

307 Md. 350 (1986)

513 A.2d 915

BARBARA ALLGOOD ET AL. v. KENNETH MUELLER ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 27, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Williams, Chestertown, for appellants.

Patrick James Attridge (Bernard J. Harig, on brief), Rockville, for appellees.

Edward S. Digges, Jr., Jack L. Harvey and Digges, Wharton & Levin, on brief, Annapolis, and Thomas H. Fitzpatrick and Anthony Hume, of counsel, Dallas, Tex., on brief, for Dresser Industries, Inc.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

This case illustrates a form of release under the Maryland Uniform Contribution Among Joint Tort-Feasors Act (the Act) which, in combination with the way in which the facts ultimately developed here, permits the releasor to retain the amount paid by the settling defendants together with the amount of the judgment against the nonsettling defendant.1

In May 1980, Gary Lyon, a student at a middle school in St. Mary...

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