GOSSARD v. CRIMINAL INJ. COMP. BD.

[No. 127, September Term, 1976.]

279 Md. 309 (1977)

368 A.2d 443

CAROLYN J. GOSSARD v. CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION BOARD

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 2, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward John Skeens for appellant.

Court did not wish to hear from appellee. Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Gilbert H. Robinette, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ., and ROBERT F. SWEENEY, Chief Judge of the District Court of Maryland, specially assigned.


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

The appellant in this case presents for our consideration the startling proposition that a man who fathers a child is not related to that child within the third degree of consanguinity. However that may be as a legal fiction in other circumstances, we need not here ponder the riddle overlong, for we are clear that under the statute before us the suggestion must be rejected out...

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