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ATHAS v. HILL

No. 68, September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 133 (1984)

476 A.2d 710

NICHOLAS ATHAS v. ROBERT LEE HILL ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry J. Ritchie, Washington, D.C. (Peter G. Angelos, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Austin W. Brizendine, Jr., Towson (Moore, Carney, Ryan & Brizendine, Towson, on the brief), for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.

SMITH, Judge.

In this case, we are faced with the question of whether Maryland Code (1957, 1979 Repl.Vol., 1983 Cum.Supp.) Article 101, § 58 authorizes an employee to sue a supervisory coemployee for negligently discharging the employer's duty to provide a safe place to work. We conclude that supervisory coemployees may be subject to liability only for negligently breaching a duty of care which they personally owe to the employee. Therefore, we shall affirm the...

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