Cromwell v. Ripley

An action brought against a dead man is a nullity. Burket v. Aldridge, Adm’r., 241 Md. 423, 430; Hunt v. Tague, 205 Md. 369, 378-79. This case was a farrago of questions from the initiation of the suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County to the denial of the court to vacate a judgment in favor of the appellee for costs. The questions arose in large measure because appellant brought an action against a man who had been dead for almost ten months. The declaration filed on 3 May 1968 by Eldred A. Cromwell, appellant here and plaintiff below, alleged that the negligence of Ralph P. Ripley,…