WALKER v. ESSEX

No. 34, September Term, 1988.

318 Md. 516 (1990)

569 A.2d 645

JOAN WALKER, ETC. v. WALTER RAY ESSEX, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Kopstein, DiSalle and Straudinger, Washington, D.C., Irving Dross, and James H. Brown, Dross & Levenstein, Temple Hills, on brief, for appellants.

Lawrence F. Regan, Jr., Bell, Cornelius & Shore, Rockville, Irwin E. Weiss, Byron Berman, Baltimore, Joseph W. Pitterich, William H. Schladt, Pitterich & Snedegar, P.C., Bethesda, all on brief, for appellees.

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


BLACKWELL, Judge.

This case concerns the settlement of a civil suit brought under the Wrongful Death Statute, Maryland Code (1974, 1984 Repl.Vol.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article, §§ 3-901 — 904.1 The settlement and subsequent entry of a judgment was on behalf of only one of two potential beneficiaries. The judgment did not provide for the second beneficiary. It exhausted all applicable assets. The judgment...

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