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MD. COAL & REALTY CO. v. ECKHART

No. 781, September Term, 1974.

25 Md. App. 605 (1975)

337 A.2d 150

THE MARYLAND COAL AND REALTY COMPANY v. JONATHAN J. ECKHART ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh A. McMullen, with whom were William H. Geppert and Geppert, McMullen & Paye on the brief, for appellant.

G. Douglas Reinhart, Marvin I. Singer and J. Michael Lawlor, with whom were Robert L. Sullivan, Jr., and Sullivan, Wiesand & Singer, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

That "any person may obtain a patent for vacant land" from the State may come as a surprise in this day and time.1 The authority is the vestige of a thriving real estate business conducted centuries ago and inherited from our British progenitors. As recently as 1972 the Maryland General Assembly completely revised the land patent procedures "to...

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