KENT COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. BILBROUGH

No. 113, September Term, 1986.

309 Md. 487 (1987)

525 A.2d 232

KENT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ET AL. v. JOHN R. BILBROUGH, JR.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia M. Hahn (Joseph C. Wich, Jr. and Cook, Howard, Downes & Tracy, on the brief), Towson, for appellants.

Jared W. Ingersoll, Chestertown, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE, JJ., and MARVIN H. SMITH and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. (retired), specially assigned.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

The issue here is whether respondent's claims against petitioners are barred by claim preclusion because the same claims had previously been adjudicated adversely to the respondent. The question presented turns on the application to the facts in this case of the elusive concept, "claim," as used in the law of claim preclusion.

Before stating the facts it seems helpful to review briefly the terms used for the concepts involved. The Supreme...

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