SALVATORE v. CUNNINGHAM

No. 81, September Term, 1985.

305 Md. 421 (1986)

505 A.2d 102

WILLIAM L. SALVATORE ET AL. v. BRIAN TIMOTHY CUNNINGHAM ET AL. KENNETH WALTER CUNNINGHAM, JR. ET AL. v. BRIAN TIMOTHY CUNNINGHAM ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Shadoan (Shadoan & Michael, on brief), Rockville, and Michael Marshall (Henry L. Belsky and Schlachman, Potler, Belsky & Weiner, P.A., on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

James E. Gray (Thomas M. Goss, Joel H. Oleinik and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

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


SMITH, Judge.

We shall here hold that in a suit based upon lack of smoke detectors at the time of a tragic fire in Garrett County appellants have failed to state a cause of action.

We have here two suits arising out of the same incident with similar pleadings. They were consolidated in the Court of Special Appeals. The Court of Special Appeals, pursuant to Maryland Rule 1015 a, certified to us questions of law:

"1. On January 1, 1982, did Maryland...

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