ALITALIA LINEE AEREE ITALIANE v. TORNILLO

No. 868, September Term, 1991.

91 Md. App. 191 (1992)

603 A.2d 1335

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

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Hashim, Jr. and Herbert Burgunder, Jr. (Horn & Bennett, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

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

Argued before GARRITY, ALPERT and MOTZ, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

At trial of this worker's compensation appeal, counsel for John Tornillo, appellee, made the following statement during his closing argument.

I think there is good news and bad news for Mr. Tornillo and I do not say this flippantly. The good news is that the law in this country is overwhelmingly on his side; the bad side is that the Maryland Court of Appeals ha[s] never directly had the issue before it. I can say that without any question....

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