Edgewood Nursing Home v. Maxwell

In this workmen’s compensation appeal, 1 the employer and insurer (the appellants) contend that the lower court’s interpretation of § 67 (6) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Maryland Code (1957, 1964 Repl. Vol., 1975 Cum. Supp.), Art. 101 deprived them of due process of law in contravention of the fourteenth amendment. Section 67 (6), 2 as interpreted in Giant Food, et al. v. Gooch, 245 Md. 160, 225 A. 2d 431 (1967), provides in effect that to be compensable under the Act an injury caused to an employee by the wilful or negligent act of a third person need not arise out of, but only in the…