Court Opinion

ID: 9443614
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:25:57.283759+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:33.185666
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FAHY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
In my opinion neither the Maryland statute nor the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution excludes an additional award under the District of Columbia statute, provided the award made in Maryland is credited upon it. In Industrial Comm’n v. McCartin, 1947, 330 U.S. 622, 67 S.Ct. 886, 91 L.Ed. 1140, the Supreme Court held the Illinois award there involved to be final and conclusive only as to rights arising in Illinois, Wisconsin being free to make compensation in accord with its own laws, 330 U.S. at page 630, 67 S.Ct. 886. It seems to me there is no pertinent difference between the Maryland statute and that of Illinois construed in the McCartin case. The Maryland statute accordingly should be construed as exclusive only as to the right or remedy in Maryland, which is all I think was decided in Victory Sparkler Co. v. Francks, 1925, 147 Md. 368, 128 A. 635, 44 A.L.R. 363. If this is so then the case before us is not controlled by Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 1943, 320 U.S. 430, 64 S.Ct. 208, 88 L.Ed. 149.