Young v. Progressive Casualty Insurance

CATHELL, Judge.

This is a factually and procedurally unusual garnishment case. The parties have not directed us to any prior Maryland cases of a similar factual and procedural nature. As Justice Holmes noted, however, “I long have said there is no such thing as a hard case. I am frightened weekly, but always when you walk up to the lion and lay hold the hide comes off and the same old donkey of a question of law is underneath.” 1 Holmes-Pollock Letters 156, reprinted in M. Frances McNamara, Famous Legal Quotations 64 (1967). In the instant case, the old donkey is the issue of when and where…