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PASSMORE v. HARRISON

No. 36, September Term, 1973.

19 Md. App. 143 (1973)

310 A.2d 205

MARY LUCINDA PASSMORE v. MICHAEL LAWRENCE HARRISON.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 23, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry A.E. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Carmen D. Tidler, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellant.

Jess Joseph Smith, Jr., with whom was George T. Burroughs on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOYLAN, POWERS and GILBERT, JJ.

POWERS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the absence of a better explanation in the record, we can but conclude that it was indifference, ineptness, carelessness, or all of them, which precluded a determination of the merits of this paternity petition in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County.

The court record began on 22 July 1970 with the filing of a petition to establish paternity, signed by...

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