Whiteley v. Schoenlein

Lawrence J. Schoenlein filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City against Minus W. Whiteley and John C. Kump in which he alleged substantially the facts set out in the following paragraph.

The complainant had been engaged for many years in the business of developing real estate and building houses for sale. He had recently been associated with a corporation which purchased ten lots in Baltimore County and undertook the completion of ten houses thereon, primarily with funds obtained on a construction mortgage. Because of increased cost of material and labor, the…