BOWMAN v. GOAD

No. 51, Sept. Term, 1997.

703 A.2d 144 (1997)

348 Md. 199

Rudolph Albert BOWMAN et al., v. David A. GOAD, Sheriff of Allegany County et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Hilliard Legum (Frederick R. Franke, Jr., Annapolis: Lloyd Clinton, Jr., Law Office of Michael Gilligan, Glen Burnie, all on brief), for Appellants.

Julia M. Freit, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for Appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER and WILNER, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI, J. (Retired, Specially Assigned).


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

Rudolph Albert Bowman, for "himself and others similarly situated," instituted this "class action" by filing a complaint in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Bowman sought, on behalf of all members of the class, "to be recompensed for ... wrongly charged fees" paid to sheriffs for serving process in motor vehicle prosecutions. Named as defendants were the sheriffs of 22 Maryland counties and of Baltimore City.1

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