Daugherty v. Kessler

The essential question posed to the jury in this case was whether the successful effort of an owner of a store building in economically burgeoning St. Mary’s County to bring the tenants in another store building to his building was an exercise of fair or unfair competition. Unfair was the answer of the jury.

To be precise, the jury found on issues that the plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants, Elwood Kessler and his wife (Kessler), had orally leased a store building to Steven Pratt and Paul Griffith, defendants (but not appellants), for ten years at a rental of $350 a month; that John T.…