Boucher v. Boyer

COLE, Judge.

We shall decide in this case whether the appellants, whose property abuts a street that was dedicated to public use but was never accepted by the county government, have any property interest in that street under a theory of implied easement by virtue of a plat reference.

The facts are not in dispute. In 1972, George H. and Beverly L. Piper, owners of an approximately fifteen acre tract in Frederick County, Maryland, prepared and duly recorded a plat adopting a plan of subdivision for their property. This plat, entitled “Section One, Piper Estates” (Piper Estates), established two…