JOHNSON v. MOUNTAIRE FARMS

No. 105, September Term, 1984.

305 Md. 246 (1986)

503 A.2d 708

NANCY JOHNSON, IND., AND AS PERS. REP. OF THE ESTATE OF RODNEY LLOYD ADAMS, JR. v. MOUNTAIRE FARMS OF DELMARVA, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donn Weinberg (Thomas E. Grzech and Fine, Gibbons & MacMeekin, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Steven R. Migdal (Manis, Wilkinson, Snider & Goldsborough, Chartered, on the brief), Annapolis, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


COLE, Judge.

In this case, we shall decide whether the Workmen's Compensation Act (the Act) permits an employee to sue his employer for a deliberate, intentional injury where the injury is caused by the reckless, wanton or wilful misconduct of the employer resulting in unsafe working conditions.

The facts generating this question may be stated briefly. Rodney Adams, age sixteen, was employed by Mountaire Farms of Delmarva, Inc. (Mountaire) at its farm in Somerset...

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