Carter v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

The ultimate question to be decided in this case is whether on the facts properly before it, the lower court erred in granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment. To answer the ultimate question we must determine what 'facts were properly before the court.

Suit was brought in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on 14 August 1972 on behalf of Robert Wayne Carter, an infant, by his parents, Lance Carter and Marie Carter, as next friends, and by the parents individually, asserting a derivative claim. Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, appellee here, was named as the sole defendant. The…