ALITALIA v. TORNILLO

No. 152, September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 192 (1990)

577 A.2d 34

ALITALIA LINEE AEREE ITALIANE ET AL. v. JOHN BURTON TORNILLO.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Burgunder, Jr. and John S. Hashim, Jr., Baltimore, for petitioners.

Luiz R.S. Simmons, Silver Spring, for respondent.

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


ADKINS, Judge.

The question before us is whether a motion for rehearing filed pursuant to Maryland Code (1957, 1985 Repl.Vol.), Article 101, § 56(e) must be preceded by a hearing at which counsel or parties appear and present their adverse positions orally before a member of the Workmen's Compensation Commission. We shall hold that the subsection embodies no such requirement.

I.

Respondent, John Burton Tornillo, claimed that he had sustained...

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