Legal Opinion
Montgomery County v. Athey
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 9, 1962No. [No. 109, September Term, 1961.]PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
Montgomery County is appealing from the affirmance by the Circuit Court of an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission to a member of the County police force for temporary total disability resulting from tuberculosis, diagnosed in 1959, which the employee, George C. Athey, claimed and the Commission found he contracted in the early part of 1956 from contact with a tubercular prisoner.
There was no reliance on the occupational disease provisions of the law. Athey recognizes that under the holding in Cambridge Mfg. Co. v. Johnson, 160 Md. 248, disability from tuberculosis ordinarily would…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation v. James A. StapletonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1956
- Reeves Motor Co. v. ReevesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1954
- Bethlehem Steel Co. v. JonesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1960
- Union Mining Co. v. BlankCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1942
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Montgomery County v. LindsayCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1982
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- Board of Trustees of Fire & Police Employees Retirement System of Baltimore v. PowellCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1989
- Continental Group v. CoppageCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1984
- D'ANNA v. Secretary of PersonnelCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1980
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