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EVANS v. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV.

[No. 119, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 234 (1961)

167 A.2d 591

EVANS v. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Whittington Whitlock, with whom was Harry Goldman, Jr., on the brief, for appellant.

John H. Bolgiano, with whom were Clater W. Smith, and Smith, Somerville & Case on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

David Robert Evans (the plaintiff-appellant), while a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University (the defendant-appellee) working towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, was burned over various parts of his body as a result of an explosion which occurred while he was synthesizing glucose and acetone, an extremely volatile substance, to produce monoacetone glucose, in one of the appellee's biology laboratories...

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