Auto Village, Inc. v. Sipe

ALPERT, Judge.

A Baltimore County jury decided that certain defective automobile repairs caused two vehicles to collide, resulting in serious personal injuries. This appeal followed and five issues are raised, the most controversial of which concerns “Mary Carter” settlement agreements. Appellant, who was found liable to two sets of plaintiffs in a consolidated trial, contends that the trial court

I. erred in excluding evidence of a settlement agreement between plaintiffs-appellees Sipes and the Grosses, who at the time of settlement were defendants in the Sipes action;

II. should have struck…