WEBB & KNAPP v. HANOVER BANK

[No. 46, September Term, 1957 (Adv.)]

214 Md. 230 (1957)

133 A.2d 450

WEBB & KNAPP, INC. ET AL. v. THE HANOVER BANK ET AL. (Two Appeals In One Record.)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. William Adelson, with whom were Arthur C. Keefer, John G. Arthur, Jr., Herbert Myerberg and Eugene P. Smith on the brief, for Webb & Knapp, Inc., appellant.

Thomas R. Brooks, with whom was Karl M. Dollak on the brief, for Norman Adolph, appellant.

Ralph W. Powers, with whom were M. Hampton Magruder and Frank M. Foley on the brief, for The Hanover Bank and John W. Ludewig as executors and trustees under the Last Will and Testament of William Woodward, Jr., deceased, appellees.

Wilmer D. Pyles for Guardian Ad Litem, appellee.

Carlyle J. Lancaster and T. Hammond Welsh, with whom were Welsh, Dyer & Lancaster on the brief, for William J. Levitt, appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Hanover Bank, of New York City, and John W. Ludewig, as executors and trustees of the estate of the late William Woodward, Jr. (sometimes collectively referred to below as the "Trustees") filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County in which they reported a contract for the sale of a tract of approximately 2227 acres of land in that County, and the improvements thereon, known as "Belair...

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