Egypt Farms, Inc. v. Lepley

The precise question before us in this appeal is whether the Circuit Court for Baltimore County erred in affirming a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission by means of summary judgment. At issue is not only the substantive correctness of the court’s findings — that Maurice Lepley’s death by asphyxiation arose out of and in the course of his employment and was not the product of willful misconduct on his part — but also whether those findings could properly be made by means of summary judgment.

We have no particular difficulty with the first issue; following an evidentiary proceeding…