McLaughlin v. Ward

On January 21, 2015, a property was sold at a foreclosure sale, but the Circuit Court for Baltimore County declined to ratify the sale because of deficiencies in the affidavit of service. The trustees decided that they could not remedy the defects, so they dismissed the foreclosure case. Before the case was dismissed, however, the thwarted purchaser, appellant Dominion Rental Holdings, LLC ("Dominion"), made improvements to the property. Dominion took no action to challenge the dismissal or to assert a claim for reimbursement or for a credit for the improvements.

In a new foreclosure action,…