DAUGHERTY v. KESSLER

[No. 147, September Term, 1971.]

264 Md. 281 (1972)

286 A.2d 95

DAUGHERTY v. KESSLER ET UX. KESSLER ET UX. v. MERCHANT ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Hogg for John T. Daugherty, appellant and Lewis C. Merchant, one of cross-appellees.

David M. Williams for Elwood W. Kessler et ux., appellees and cross-appellants.

Ernest N. Cory, Jr., for Citizens National Bank of Southern Maryland, other cross-appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and DIGGES, JJ.


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

The essential question posed to the jury in this case was whether the successful effort of an owner of a store building in economically burgeoning St. Mary's County to bring the tenants in another store building to his building was an exercise of fair or unfair competition. Unfair was the answer of the jury.

To be precise, the jury found on issues that the plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants, Elwood...

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