Legal Opinion
First National Bank v. Burton, Parsons & Co.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 3, 1984No. 401, September Term, 1983PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Chief Judge.
Words, it has been said, are the expression of ideas. Accepting that as true, we wish, in the instant case, that the parties’ ideas had been more clearly expressed.
As this appeal reaches us, it involves claims for royalties on patents, allegations of discovery rule violations, quantum meruit, an assertion of fraud, a $750,000 verdict against the appellee, and a cross-appeal.
Before we endeavor to unravel the wopse in which the parties placed themselves, we shall describe the factual setting from which this litigation arose.
Dr. Billy F. Rankin was a successful inventor who…
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