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PAVEL ENTERPRISES, INC. v. A.S. JOHNSON

No. 62, September Term, 1995.

342 Md. 143 (1996)

PAVEL ENTERPRISES, INC. v. A.S. JOHNSON COMPANY, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Patin (Spriggs & Hollingsworth, on brief) Washington, DC, for Appellant.

Tarrant H. Lomax (Rhodes, Dunbar & Lomax, Chartered, on brief) Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL, and RAKER, JJ.

KARWACKI, Judge.

In this case we are invited to adapt the "modern" contractual theory of detrimental reliance,1 or promissory estoppel, to the relationship between general contractors and their subcontractors. Although the theory of detrimental reliance is available to general contractors, it is not applicable to the facts of this case. For that reason, and because there was no traditional bilateral contract formed, we shall affirm the...

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