UNITAS v. TEMPLE

No. 47, September Term, 1988.

314 Md. 689 (1989)

552 A.2d 1285

ANTHONY J. UNITAS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND V. RANGLE v. JANET M. TEMPLE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Archibald (Edmund P. Dandridge, Jr., Venable, Baetjer and Howard, Baltimore), on brief, for petitioner.

M. Albert Figinski (Franklin Goldstein, David R. Sonnenberg, Julie C. Janofsky, Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner, Smouse & Garbis, P.A., Baltimore), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

The late Raymond V. Rangle, M.D. (Rangle) died intestate in June 1983 at age sixty-seven. After his death his long time fiancee and lover, Janet Marsha Temple (Temple), the respondent, brought this action to enforce an alleged oral contract under which Rangle was to provide for Temple in his will. Although Rangle's estate included realty, the circuit court held that the statute of frauds was inapplicable because of part performance by Temple. The...

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