Lamb v. Hopkins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
1Opinion of the Court
COLE, Judge.
We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether a probation officer who fails to report a probationer’s violation to the sentencing court owes any duty to an individual injured by the negligence of the probationer.
Because this case reaches us on demurrer, 1 we are required to accept as true all well-pleaded material facts in the declaration and any reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom. Tadjer v. Montgomery County, 300 Md. 539, 542, 479 A.2d 1321, 1322 (1984); Cox v. Prince George’s County, 296 Md. 162, 169, 460 A.2d 1038, 1042 (1983). On August 8, 1975,…
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