ROSENTHAL v. MUELLER

No. 360, Sept. Term, 1998.

720 A.2d 1264 (1998)

124 Md. App. 170

Marilyn ROSENTHAL et vir. v. Lee McEvoy MUELLER et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Orman, Baltimore, for Appellants.

Jacqueline M. Bunty, Baltimore, for Appellees.

Argued before MOYLAN and ADKINS, JJ., and JOHN F. McAULIFFE, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


MOYLAN, Judge.

This appeal turns on a simple principle. With respect to the legal phenomenon of "contributory negligence," the limiting adjective "contributory" is just as significant and just as necessary an element as is the noun "negligence." Untold thousands of acts of negligence, as purely abstract phenomena, go regularly unnoticed and are legally inconsequential unless they actually contribute to some adverse result.

The appeal arises from a personal...

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