Adloo v. H.T. Brown Real Estate, Inc.

BELL, Judge.

In this case, we are asked to resolve whether, as a matter of law, clauses in a real estate listing contract between the petitioners, Abdolrahman Adloo, and Monireh, his wife, and the respondent H.T. Brown Real Estate, Inc., and in a related lock-box authorization are exculpatory clauses, which absolve the real estate company from liability for its future negligence. The Circuit Court for Montgomery County having denied the respondent’s motion for judgment premised on the clauses being exculpatory, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the petitioners. The respondent…