Dick v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

ADKINS, Judge.

Appellants Richard and Joyce Dick, affronted by conduct and language used during debt-collection efforts by appellee Edward C. Mullendore, vice-president of appellee Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company, sued Mercantile and Mullendore in the Circuit Court for Frederick County. In their declaration they charged, among other things, violation of the Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act (count I) and intentional infliction of severe emotional dis tress (count II). 1 The court eventually sustained appellees’ demurrer without leave to amend. Appellants aver that this was error.

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