Irvington Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. West

This case is an appeal from a decree passed by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in Equity, where a claim under a contract of sale was declared a lien and given priority to a recorded mortgage executed by the General Erectors, Incorporated (herein called Erectors) to the appellant (herein called Irvington).

The facts out of which the case arose may be stated in narrative form as follows: Erectors was engaged in developing property, erecting houses on lots in developments and selling the houses and lots. It purchased a tract of land in Catonsville, fronting less than 400 feet on Ingleside…