A. S. Abell Co. v. Sweeney

In A. S. Abell Co. v. Sweeney, 274 Md. 715, 337 A.2d 77 (1975), the Court of Appeals quoted Professor Borchard in analyzing when a declaratory judgment may be appropriate notwithstanding the pendency of another similar action. Id. at 721. The Court commented that "'[w]here an action or proceeding is already pending in another forum involving the same issues, (absent very unusual and compelling circumstances,) it is manifestly unwise and unnecessary to permit a new petition for a declaration to be initiated.'" Id.