Walker v. Essex

BLACKWELL, Judge.

This case concerns the settlement of a civil suit brought under the Wrongful Death Statute, Maryland Code (1974, 1984 Repl.Vol.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article, §§ 3-901 — 904. 1 The settlement and subsequent entry of a judgment was on behalf of only one of two potential beneficiaries. The judgment did not provide for the second beneficiary. It exhausted all applicable assets. The judgment was not entered with the consent of the second beneficiary, who now contests the entry of judgment, and the judgment itself.

When Lupe Willardo Hawkins, Sr. died as the result of a…