Mason v. Board of Education

826 A.2d 433 (2003)

375 Md. 504

Shelley MASON

v.

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, et al.

No. 44, Sept. Term, 2002.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 16, 2003.

John H. Morris, Jr., Baltimore, for petitioner.

Edmund J. O'Meally (Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz, P.A., on brief), Towson, for respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and BATTAGLIA, JJ.

RAKER, J.

We granted certiorari to consider the issue of when, for purposes of § 5-201 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article,[1] a minor become an adult—the day before the minor's eighteenth birthday or on the…