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McQUIGGAN v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

No. 673, September Term, 1987.

73 Md. App. 705 (1988)

536 A.2d 137

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER McQUIGGAN, A MINOR, ETC. v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. O'Neill, Jr., (Ford & O'Neill, Carole C. Perez and D'Erasmo, Shure & Perez, on the brief), Rockville, for appellant.

Wade J. Gallagher (Martell, Donnelly, Gallagher & Kastantin, on the brief), Rockville, for appellees, BSA and NCAC.

Allan A. Noble (Budow and Noble, P.C., on the brief), Bethesda, for appellees, William M. Hamm, Sr. and William M. Hamm, Jr.

Don F. Ryder, Jr. and Schroeder, Ryder, Braden, on the brief, Rockville, for appellee, Rush.

Thomas Patrick Ryan and McCarthy, Wilson & Ethridge, on the brief, Rockville, for appellee, Hestand.

Peter E. Derry, Pyne & Derry, Chevy Chase, for Edmund S. Copeland.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and BLOOM, JJ.

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

The main question presented in this case is whether a twelve-year-old boy should be barred from recovery for an eye injury he sustained when he voluntarily participated in a paper clip shooting "game."

Nicholas Alexander McQuiggan, by and through his guardian, Jerome Keith Bradford, brought an action in tort against: the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); the National Capital Area Council for the Boy Scouts of America (NCAC); Thomas Hestand...

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