KIRKMAN v. MONTGOMERY CTY. COUNCIL

[No. 383, September Term, 1967.]

251 Md. 273 (1968)

247 A.2d 255

KIRKMAN, ET AL. v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 7, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Bowman for appellants.

Lawrence E. Speelman, with whom were I. John Ritterpusch, Robert A. Gingell and Ritterpusch & Gingell on the brief for Urbana Development Corporation, part of appellees. No brief filed by Montgomery County Council, other appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, BARNES, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.


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

The contract purchaser of an undeveloped tract (the Urbana property), some 35 acres northwest of Gaithersburg, in Montgomery County, knowing that the property had been zoned R-R (rural residential, single family, minimum area 20,000 square feet) by the zoning ordinance and comprehensive map adopted by the Montgomery County Council on 31 May 1958, decided to seek a reclassification of the property which would permit...

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