Maddy v. Jones

The single question raised here is whether the lower court erred in its finding that the appellant, Ardieth Maddy, was not a resident of Maryland at the time of an accident between an automobile driven by the appellee, Jack Jones, and a motorcycle on which appellant was riding as a passenger, and consequently ineligible to obtain payment from the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund of a judgment which he recovered against Jones.

The forty-nine year old appellant, a native of West Virginia, had lived for many years in that State, with intervals of employment elsewhere. At the suggestion of his…