Keesling v. State

This case involves the two dismissals provision of Md. Rule 541.1 The plaintiff in this action, Elza L. Keesling (Keesling), appealed from a summary judgment entered against him by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in favor of the State of Maryland (the State). That judgment was premised on a determination that in each of two, separate, prior lawsuits Keesling had voluntarily dismissed the State within the meaning of Rule 541 c, so that there had been an adjudication on the merits in favor of the State. Because the second "dismissal” was not a voluntary one, we shall reverse.

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