WAICKER v. COLBERT

No. 86, September Term, 1996.

699 A.2d 426 (1997)

347 Md. 108

Gary W. WAICKER, et. al. v. Christina COLBERT, et. al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 2, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia M. Freit, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Appellants.

Scott E. Nevin (the Law Office of Saul E. Kerpelman, on brief), Baltimore, for Appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, RAKER and WILNER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the Circuit Court for Baltimore City abused its discretion by entertaining a declaratory judgment action when the issue presented in the proceeding for declaratory relief was the same as that presented in pending, previously filed, tort actions. This case presents no unusual and compelling circumstances to justify the declaratory judgment while the same issue presented in the declaratory judgment action was presented...

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