Maddox v. Shanks

This is an appeal by the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund (the Fund) from a lower court order directing payment from the Fund of a judgment obtained by Vera Shanks (judgment creditor), the injured party, against William H. Maddox (judgment debtor and nominal appellant), an alleged insured.

The appeal turns on the question as to whether the lower court erred in ordering payment of the judgment from the Fund even though there was a possibility that the judgment debtor was an insured under an automobile liability policy issued to Elsie Mae Farrow (named insured) by the Maryland Indemnity…