Legal Opinion
Mattingly v. Hopkins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 13, 1969No. [No. 148, September Term, 1968.]PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinan, J.
The Circuit’ Court for Montgomery County dismissed the appellants’ declaration, sounding in tort, as it was of the opinion that the three year statutory period of limitations had run prior to the filing of the suit. We are of the same mind.
In 1951, Joseph A. Mattingly and Marion Mattingly, his wife (appellants), purchased lots 8, 9, 10, and 11 of block 2 in a subdivision known as Hillmeade-Bradley Hills in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1952, the appellants entered into an oral contract with Page F. Hopkins and Charles J. Maddox (appellees), a civil engineering firm, to resubdivide these…
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- W., B. A. Elec. R.R. Co. v. MossCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1917
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