CAPLAN v. GOLDSTEIN

[No. 74, September Term, 1963.]

232 Md. 552 (1963)

194 A.2d 622

CAPLAN v. GOLDSTEIN

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 5, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Pittler and Albert L. Sklar, with whom were Sklar & Sullivan on the brief, for appellants.

Leonard S. Jacobson for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

This appeal presents the narrow question whether an option to purchase land, contained in a lease, may be exercised by a tenant holding over. The facts are undisputed, and the question comes here upon the granting of the tenant's motion for summary judgment in a bill for specific performance by the tenant.

On September 25, 1955, the Caplans executed a lease of a tract of unimproved land to Goldstein for a...

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