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EAGAN v. CALHOUN

No. 109, Sept. Term, 1996.

698 A.2d 1097 (1997)

347 Md. 72

James K. EAGAN, Guardian of the Property and Next Friend of Laura M. Calhoun and Kevin J. Calhoun, minors v. John C. CALHOUN.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Peklo, Ellicott City, for Petitioner.

Emile J. Henault, Jr., Glen Burnie, for Respondent.

Kieron F. Quinn, Baltimore, for amicus curiae, Maryland Trial Lawyer's Association.

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

WILNER, Judge.

This case constitutes another assault on the doctrine of parent-child immunity, adopted into the Maryland law in Schneider v. Schneider, 160 Md. 18, 152 A. 498 (1930) and, with but limited exceptions, retained consistently since then. See, most recently, Renko v. McLean, 346 Md. 464, 697 A.2d 468 (1997). Here, however, the claimant shall have a measure of success...

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