I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros.

This controversy presents questions of whether the parties — the owner and a contractor — to two separate contracts for the construction, respectively, of a group of stores and of a parking deck in a shopping center, agreed to a novation of contract, whether in a suit at law to recover the monies owed, the contractor was properly allowed prejudgment interest and whether interest upon the judgment entered was allowable upon the interest included in the judgment.

I. W. Berman Properties (Berman), the appellant, the owner of the shopping center in Laurel, Maryland, planned to erect a third…