Boyd v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County entered by Judge James L. Wray on 1 August 1974, dismissing a bill of complaint for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land brought against the appellee, Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company, personal representative of the estate of Eula M. Milburn.1 It all began on 22 November 1943 when a major portion of the land which is the subject matter of this dispute (Cook property) was conveyed from George J. Cook and Elna Y. Cook, his wife, to Ralph P. Milburn and Eula M. Milburn, his wife, as…