MOTELS OF MD. v. BALTO. COUNTY

[No. 456, September Term, 1965.]

244 Md. 306 (1966)

223 A.2d 609

MOTELS OF MARYLAND, INC. v. BALTIMORE COUNTY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 10, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mannes F. Greenberg and Joseph S. Kaufman, with whom were Louis B. Price and Melnicove, Asch, Greenberg & Kaufman on the brief, for the appellant.

Harry S. Shapiro, Assistant County Solicitor of Baltimore County, with whom was E. Scott Moore, County Solicitor, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


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

Motels of Maryland, Inc. sued Baltimore County to recover $6,142.50 it had paid the County as a transfer tax when it recorded what it calls a "short form" of a written "leasing agreement." Motels' theory was that it had paid the money under a mistake of fact in that it had thought the initial writing transferred a leasehold interest in land and thus was subject to the County...

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