CARVEN v. HICKMAN

No. 2241, Sept. Term, 1999.

763 A.2d 1207 (2000)

135 Md. App. 645

Thomas J. CARVEN, et ux. v. Vivian M. HICKMAN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Louis J. Hickman, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Douglas Norton (Brown, Brown & Brown, P.A. on the brief), Bel Air, for appellants.

James W. Almand (Christopher A. Palmer and Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy & Almand, P.A. on the brief), Ocean City, for appellees.

Argued before SONNER, KRAUSER, and MARVIN H. SMITH (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


KRAUSER, Judge.

The issue presented by this case is whether the statute of repose, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 5-108 of the Maryland Code Annotated (1973, 1998 Repl. Vol.), bars a claim against an owner developer who, after allegedly removing the headstones from his family graveyard, sold it, as part of a residential lot, without notifying the purchasers of its existence or removing the graves or their occupants. The ultimate and unwitting purchasers of...

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