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STATE, CENTRAL COLLECTION v. STEWART

[No. 20, September Term, 1981.]

292 Md. 255 (1981)

438 A.2d 1311

STATE OF MARYLAND CENTRAL COLLECTION UNIT v. FREDERICK R. STEWART STATE OF MARYLAND CENTRAL COLLECTION UNIT v. EMMETT C. PETWAY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Ronald J. Rinehart, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

Amicus curiae brief for the United States Department of Health and Human Services filed. Randolph W. Gaines, Chief of Litigation, and Natalie R. Dethloff, Attorney, on the brief.

Ethel Zelenske, with whom was Dennis W. Carroll on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

RODOWSKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. ELDRIDGE and COLE, JJ., dissent. ELDRIDGE, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 263 infra, in which COLE, J., concurs.

In these cases the petitioner, State of Maryland, acting through the Central Collection Unit (the State), seeks judgments against the respondents for reimbursement of part of the cost of care and treatment rendered to the respondents in a state mental hospital during specified periods in the...

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