JARRETT v. SCOFIELD

[No. 31, October Term, 1952.]

200 Md. 641 (1952)

92 A.2d 370

JARRETT v. SCOFIELD ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 11, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Thompson, with whom were V. Calvin Trice and Harrington & Thompson on the brief, for the appellant.

William D. Gould, with whom were Gould & Edmondson on the brief, for the appellees.

The cause was argued before MARKELL, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1944, J. Wilbur Jarrett, the appellant, bargained and sold unto Scofield Brothers, the appellees, by written contract, certain timber standing on his property in the Taylors Island Election District of Dorchester County. One of the covenants of this contract was for quiet enjoyment, expressed in the following language:

"That the said parties of the second part shall...

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