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MAAS v. LUCAS

No. 307, September Term, 1975.

29 Md. App. 521 (1975)

349 A.2d 655

GEORGE J. MAAS v. DIANE MAAS LUCAS ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 31, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson R. Kerr, Jr., with whom were Kerr, Kerr & Howe on the brief, for appellant — cross-appellee.

Richard C. Murray for appellees — cross-appellants.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and DAVIDSON and LOWE, JJ.

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

A proverb, much used in a part of England where estates do not long stay in one family, declares:

"The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells and his son begs."

When the father buys, the father builds, the father sells and the children benefit well beyond that which the father intended, a continued pressing of legal advantage must indeed sharpen the "serpent's tooth" alluded to by King Lear...

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