Legal Opinion
Pierson v. Pyles
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 10, 1964No. [No. 190, September Term, 1963.]PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarbury, J.
The appellants, Milton T. Pierson and Jean Hess Pierson, his wife, entered into a contract for the purchase of lot 30 in block 2 as shown on a plat of an unrecorded subdivision known as Gordon’s Corner, Spaldings District, in Prince George’s County. The record title to the property was in W. Eugene Pyles at the time the contract was made. He has since died, leaving a will which vested title in Harvey E. Pyles, Sr.., appellee, as trustee.
The contract, dated June 13, 1946, provides, inter alia, as follows:
“The total purchase price of the aforesaid property is Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00)…
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