MAYOR & CNCL. OF BALT. v. THORNTON MELLON

No. 6, Sept. Term, 2021.

274 A.3d 1079 (2022)

478 Md. 396

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. THORNTON MELLON, LLC, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied June 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Michael Redmond , Dir., Appellate Practice Group ( Mary Keenan , Div. Chief, Collections; Renita L. Collins , Chief Sol., Litigation; Wendy Smith Barlow , Chief Sol., Collections, and James L. Shea , City Sol., Baltimore City Department of Law, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Geoffrey Polk (Atty. at Law, Chicago, IL) and N. Tucker Meneely (Council, Baradel Kosmerl & Nolan, P.A., Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondents.

Argued before: Getty, C.J., McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Booth, Biran, Lynne A. Battaglia (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned) JJ.


In this case, we must determine the moment when fee simple legal title vests in real property that has been sold at a tax sale under the provisions of the Maryland tax sale statute, which is set forth in Title 14, Subtitle 8, of the Tax-Property Article of the Maryland Code ("TP") (1985, 2019 Repl. Vol, 2021 Supp.). The issue arises in...

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