Legal Opinion
Slate v. Zitomer
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 12, 1975No. [No. 160, September Term, 1974.]PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEldridge, J.
Murphy, C. J., and Levine, J., dissent and Levine, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Murphy, C. J., concurs at page 545 infra.
The two cases which we decide in this opinion, Slate v. Zitomer and Church v. Gasperich, present the issue of whether a 1971 amendment to the wrongful death statute, extending the period of limitations for bringing a wrongful death action from two years to three years, is to be applied retroactively to such actions arising after July 1, 1969, but before July 1,1971, the effective date of the amendment.
The extension of the period of limitations for a wrongful…
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