Legal Opinion
Snyder v. Holy Cross Hospital
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 26, 1976No. Misc. No. 36, September Term, 1975PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOrth, C. J.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On 20 January 1976 Burnett Snyder instituted an action in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County to prevent a postmortem examination from being made on the body of his son, Neal. * 1 The Bill of Complaint alleged that the son, eighteen years of age, died suddenly on 19 January 1976 at 12703 Layhill Road in Silver Spring, where he resided with his parents. The body was at Holy Cross Hospital, and a Deputy Medical Examiner of the State of Maryland, Dr. John Rogers, had directed that it be removed to Baltimore for a post-mortem examination. The father was “a practicing…
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