Unsatisfied Claim & Judgment Fund v. Hamilton

We are here confronted with that often frustrating but sometimes gratifying judicial duty of ascertaining the intent of the legislature; frustrating because in Maryland there usually is little prepassage evidence of intent, and gratifying because the usual paucity of objective evidence leaves room for the exercise of judicial perceptiveness and perspicacity in determining intent.

The Maryland Unsatisfied 'Claim and Judgment Fund Law (the Statute), Code (1S67 Repl. Vol.), Art. 66y2, §§ 150 to 179, provides in §§ 158, 159 and 160 that a qualified person who holds a valid judgment in excess of…