collins/snoops Associates, Inc. v. Cjf, LLC

This appeal presents the question of whether a judge who hears a bench trial in a case in which two parties each claim the other breached a contract may deny both claims on the ground that neither party carried its burden of persuading the court that the other party breached the contract. Under the peculiar circumstances of this case, we shall affirm a judgment that denied relief to both the plaintiff and the counterplaintiff.

The case arose from a dispute between a contractor and its subcontractor on a project that involved renovations to three Baltimore County school buildings. The general…