Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Cline

This Court granted a writ of certiorari in this case to review the decision of the Court of Special Appeals, 13 Md. App. 337, 283 A. 2d 188 (1971), the petition for the writ contending that that court had misapplied established rules of statutory construction by allowing death benefits to a dependent in a Workmen’s Compensation case in accordance with an amendatory schedule of benefits becoming effective before the death of the injured workman, but after his injury. The appellant contended in the Court of Special Appeals as it contends here that this gives a retroactive effect to an increased…