Loh v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered, upon motion pursuant to Rule 610, by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Summary judgment was granted, after a hearing, upon the lower court’s determination that appellant’s claim had been satisfied under the principle in Scheffenacker v. Hoopes, 113 Md. 111 (1910). On appeal, appellant argues that this venerable precedent has been misapplied, and that summary judgment was granted improperly. Alternatively, appellant argues that the court below failed to take proper account of the Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act, Article 50, §§…