Carven v. Hickman

KRAUSER, Judge.

The issue presented by this case is whether the statute of repose, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 5-108 of the Maryland Code Annotated (1973, 1998 Repl.Vol.), bars a claim against an owner developer who, after allegedly removing the headstones from his family graveyard, sold it, as part of a residential lot, without notifying the purchasers of its existence or removing the graves or their occupants. The ultimate and unwitting purchasers of that lot were appellants, Thomas and Deborah Carven.

In 1986, appellants built their home on the lot in question, and in 1995 they…