Colonial Pipeline Co. v. Gimbel

Colonial Pipeline Company (hereinafter "Colonial”), the appellant herein, filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, seeking to condemn property owned by the David W. Chertkof Trust. At the time of trial, the surviving trustee of the David W. Chertkof Trust was Jack O. Chertkof, who has since that time passed away. The successor trustees are Helen Gimbel and Ethel Posnick, the appellees herein.

The parties filed a stipulation on May 15, 1981, in which the appellees granted to the appellant the right to enter the property and to set the date of valuation of the property…