ALLSTATE INS. CO. v. ATWOOD

No. 1098, September Term, 1986.

71 Md. App. 107 (1987)

523 A.2d 1066

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY v. JOHN ATWOOD, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Granted August 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Wilson, Jr. (McCarthy, Wilson, Ethridge & Quinn on the brief) Rockville, for appellant.

Alan S. Feld (Bulman, Dunie, Burke & Feld, Chartered on the brief) Bethesda, for appellees.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., WEANT, J., and JAMES S. GETTY, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

This appeal is an outgrowth of an incident that occurred on Halloween night, 1983. In an apparently unprovoked attack, a teenager, John Atwood, struck Raymond Dacek III, a minor, in the face. Young Dacek, individually and through his father, sued Atwood in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. The suit alleged that Dacek's injuries were caused by Atwood's negligence or deliberate assault and battery upon the youthful plaintiff.

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