CHAPMAN v. KAMARA

No. 18, Sept. Term, 1998.

739 A.2d 387 (1999)

356 Md. 426

Cheryl CHAPMAN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Henry Norman Cole, II, et al. v. Marie KAMARA, Individually, etc.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Fortune Fay, David J. Perrone, on brief, Washington, DC, for petitioners.

Gerard J. Stief, Associate General Counsel (Robert J. Polk, General Counsel; Robert J. Kniaz, Deputy General Counsel, on brief), Washington, DC, for respondents.

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


RAKER, Judge.

This case arises out of an automobile accident that occurred in Prince George's County. Several of the parties to that accident filed a "friendly suit"1 in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, and the court entered a consent judgment. Several years later, parties to the friendly suit became concerned with the preclusive effect of that consent judgment on a subsequent lawsuit filed in federal court, and moved to vacate...

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