FIRST NAT'L BK. v. BURTON, PARSONS & CO.

No. 401, September Term, 1983.

57 Md. App. 437 (1984)

470 A.2d 822

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND AND GILBERT E. SOUTH, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF BILLY F. RANKIN v. BURTON, PARSONS & CO., INC., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied June 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Shaughnessy, Fairfax, Va., with whom were Dexter S. Odin, Sally Ann Hostetler, Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C., Fairfax, Thomas D. Murphy and Madden & Murphy, Rockville, on the brief, for appellants.

Jeffrey S. Davidson, Washington, D.C., with whom were David K. Perdue, John M. Walker, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., Patrick J. Attridge, John A. King and MacLeay, Lynch, Bernhard, Gregg & Attridge, Rockville, on the brief, for appellees.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and BISHOP and ALPERT, JJ.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

Words, it has been said, are the expression of ideas. Accepting that as true, we wish, in the instant case, that the parties' ideas had been more clearly expressed.

As this appeal reaches us, it involves claims for royalties on patents, allegations of discovery rule violations, quantum meruit, an assertion of fraud, a $750,000 verdict against the appellee, and a cross-appeal.

Before we endeavor to unravel the wopse in which...

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