Maddox v. Shanks’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Since, as a prerequisite to the passage of an order requiring the Fund to pay a judgment, Code (1957), Art. 66J4, § 159(e) requires an application for payment to show that ‘the judgment debtor at the time of the accident was not insured under a policy of automobile insurance under the terms of which the insurer is liable to pay the amount of the judgment,’ the Fund, claiming that the judgment debtor was such an insured person as is defined in the statute and that there is a possibility of insurance coverage being available to him, contends that the judgment creditor has not sat isfied the requirement of § 159(e). While we agree, as the judgment creditor apparently concedes, that the Fund had a right to raise a question as to the possibility that the judgment debtor was an insured under the policy in question, that is a matter which is not reached under the circumstances of this case. Rather, we think the judgment creditor is entitled to payment of her judgment without further delay upon the assignment of it to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, for, as we see it, this case is indistinguishable on the facts from the decision of this Court in Honeywell v. Roberson, 239 Md. 430 , 212 A. 2d 245 (1965). In any event, the Fund, as assignee of the judgment, will have all the rights of the judgment creditor under the judgment and be entitled to enforce the same. See Code (1957), Art. 66^, § 166.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parks v. Williams