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CHALMERS v. WILLIS

[No. 383, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 379 (1967)

231 A.2d 70

CHALMERS, ET VIR v. WILLIS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 5, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Goldsborough, Jr., (on both arguments) for appellants.

Dorothy H. Thompson (on both arguments), with whom was Ernest M. Thompson on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued on May 4, 1967 before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and McWILLIAMS, JJ., and reargued on May 29, 1967 before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and FINAN, JJ.

OPPENHEIMER, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court. HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, and FINAN, JJ., dissent. Dissenting opinion by HAMMOND, C.J., at page 388, infra.

We are called upon to decide whether a friend, who accompanies a learning driver with only a learner's permit for the purpose of giving the driver instruction and help in learning to drive, must be held, as a matter of law, to have assumed the risk of injury in an accident in which no other...

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