HARTFORD INS. CO. v. MANOR INN

No. 28, September Term, 1993.

335 Md. 135 (1994)

642 A.2d 219

THE HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY v. MANOR INN OF BETHESDA, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 9, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jill A. Reid (Donovan, O'Connell & Broderick, all on brief), Silver Spring, for petitioner.

John D. Holler, Mt. Rainier, for respondent, Manor Inn of Bethesda, Inc.

Dawna M. Cobb, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and C.J. Messerschmidt, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for State of MD.

Argued Before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and BELL, JJ.


BELL, Judge.

The issue this case presents involves causation, proximate and superseding. This case arose when an escaped patient from a State-operated hospital for the mentally ill stole a van that had been left unattended, with the keys in the ignition, and, while driving the van, subsequently struck another automobile, causing personal injury and property damage. The injured driver, Robert Wewer ("Wewer"), having been compensated for his injuries, pursuant to an...

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