Legal Opinion
Chew v. DeVries
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 19, 1965No. [No. 433, September Term, 1964.]PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPrescott, C. J.
This appeal involves a somewhat unusual set of facts, and reaches us in a rather peculiar posture.
On August 14, 1959, the appellees were, and still are, the owners of a parcel of land consisting of about 121 acres, situate in Baltimore County, Maryland. On that date, they executed and delivered to one S. I. Lapidus an option (Lapidus option) to purchase the subject property at a purchase price of $85,000. There are only two provisions in this option which require interpretation. They follow:
“Notice of election by the optionee, his successors or assigns to purchase the aforesaid property,…
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