BEALL v. BEALL

[No. 50, September Term, 1980.]

291 Md. 224 (1981)

434 A.2d 1015

CECELIA M. BEALL v. CARLTON G. BEALL

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided September 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Rosen, with whom were Willoner, Calabrese & Rosen, P.A. on the brief, for appellant.

J. Frederick Garner, with whom were Lancaster & Garner on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. SMITH and DIGGES, JJ., dissent. SMITH, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 236 infra, in which DIGGES, J., concurs.

In this case we are called upon to decide, after a brief discussion of the reasons a purported option to purchase land does not satisfy the requirements of the statute of frauds, a question of first impression:1 whether a bare offer by husband and wife to sell land held...

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