SMITH v. WATNER

[No. 119, September Term, 1969.]

256 Md. 400 (1970)

260 A.2d 341

SMITH, ET AL. v. WATNER, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by William R. Scannell for appellants.

Submitted by William O.E. Sterling for appellees.

The cause was submitted on brief to HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and DIGGES, JJ.


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

This dispute, now somewhat musty, comes to us from St. Mary's County. It all began with a tax sale in December 1953. In February 1969 the chancellor, Dorsey, J. (now C.J.) dismissed appellants' petition to set aside the 1957 decree of foreclosure. We shall set aside Judge Dorsey's order, but first, the narration of what happened in the years between must be endured.

Appellants acquired their one-half acre...

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