St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Aragona

The St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (St. Paul or appellant) has appealed a judgment for $310,000.00 entered against it in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County in favor of Xavier Aragona, Marie Aragona, his wife, and Martin Aragona (Aragonas or appellees).

The subject litigation is an offshoot of the case of Myers v. Aragona, 21 Md. App. 45, 318 A. 2d 263, cert. den. 272 Md. 746 (1974). In Myers v. Aragona, the Aragonas had recovered judgment against Mitchell Myers, an attorney at law, under a two count declaration alleging alternatively (a) that Myers was liable for the wrongful…