Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Montgomery County Board of Education
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 2, 1983No. [No. 17, September Term, 1982.]PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, C. J.
Davidson, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 463, infra.
The issue in this case is whether the common law doctrine of contributory negligence should be judicially abrogated in Maryland and the doctrine of comparative negligence adopted in its place as the rule governing trial of negligence actions in this State.
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On April 26, 1978, Michael Harrison, fourteen years old and an eighth-grade student at Gaithersburg Junior High School in Montgomery County, attended a required physical education class. Since the weather was bad, the class was held in the school gymnasium, with…
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