NEALE v. WRIGHT

No. 50, September Term, 1989.

322 Md. 8 (1991)

585 A.2d 196

ALVIN MORRIS NEALE ET AL. v. FLETCHER L. WRIGHT ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin S. Vaughan (Armstrong, Donohue & Ceppos, Chartered, on brief), Rockville, for petitioner.

Charles R. Claxton, Washington, D.C. (Mary S. Akerley, Sasscer, Clagett, Channing & Bucher, Upper Marlboro, on brief), for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired) Specially Assigned.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In this case a husband and wife together purchased an automobile at a time when the husband was excluded from the liability insurance policy on the vehicle under the named driver exclusion provision of the Insurance Code, Maryland Code (1957, 1986 Repl.Vol., 1990 Cum.Supp.), Art. 48A, § 240C-1. The principal issue is whether the joint ownership under these circumstances constituted "negligent entrustment" by the wife.

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