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JOHNSON v. SEARLE

No. 19, September Term, 1988.

314 Md. 521 (1989)

552 A.2d 29

CHERYL JOHNSON v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY ET AL. EILEEN M. FERCH v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Erwin, Jr. (Pretl & Erwin, P.A., both on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

James L. Shea (Jill E. Rappaport, Terri L. Turner, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

These appeals involve Md.Code (1974, 1984 Repl. Vol.), § 6-104(a) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (CJ) which provides:

"If a court finds that in the interest of substantial justice an action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss the action in whole or in part on any conditions it considers just."

We shall hold that a circuit court abuses its discretion by unconditionally dismissing actions...

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