WELSH v. GERBER PRODUCTS

Misc. No. 19, September Term, 1987.

315 Md. 510 (1989)

555 A.2d 486

MICHAEL WELSH ET AL. v. GERBER PRODUCTS, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Allen Rohrbaugh (Rohrbaugh & Abbondanza, P.C., both on brief), Rockville, for appellants.

Deborah Sweet (Louis G. Close, Jr., Ann MacNeille, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

We address a question certified to us by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit pursuant to the Maryland Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act.1 The question involves the scope and reach of nonmutual, defensive, collateral estoppel following the entry of a consent judgment, and affects the rights of parties in a joint tort-feasor situation. Because the question fashioned by the certifying court...

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